Re: Public Review Issue: UAX #24 Proposed Update

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 08:25:48 CDT

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    Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:

    >On 2004.09.09, 05:53, <rick@unicode.org> wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >>>FB1D, HEBREW LETTER YOD WITH HIRIQ, should be assigned to the
    >>>unknown group. It is not a Hebrew character, notwithstanding the
    >>>misleading name.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>Hmmm... Are you claiming that HEBREW LETTER YOD (the base character
    >>of the codepoint U+FB1D) is not a letter of the Hebrew script, and
    >>you can substantiate that claim?
    >>
    >>
    >
    >;-) Though I'm sure Jony is refering to the yod+hiriq combination
    >

    On the contrary, YOD+HIRIQ is a very common combination in Hebrew.

    >, it
    >is a dead horse: After all, U+0140 and U+013F are still not deprecated
    >and (much worse) are still claiming in the notes that they are meant
    >to be used in Catalan. A lot of decomposing equine corpses may cause
    >serious public health problems. :-\
    >
    >
    Pretty much; this is not a productive discussion.

    ~mark



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