RE: Exemplar Characters

From: JR (jr@qsm.co.il)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 09:13:14 CST

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:55 PM
> To: Unicode Discussion
> Subject: RE: Exemplar Characters
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> At 15:36 +0200 2005-11-16, JR wrote:
>
> > > >The exemplar character set for Hebrew should be limited to
> > > that of ISO 8859-8, i.e. Alef to Tav plus ' and ".
> > >
> >> Not apostrophe and quotation mark, I take it.
> >
> >Yes to both. They are commonly used in abbreviations and
> acronyms, similar
> >to the period in e.g. or i.e..
>
> Surely Geresh and Gershayim.

They should have been, but COMMONLY apostrophe and quotation mark are used,
and most systems do not yet support Geresh and Gershayim.

Jony

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