Re: Compatibility decomposition for Hebrew and Greek final letters

From: Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:21:19 +0000

On 19 Feb 2015, at 10:55, Eli Zaretskii <eliz_at_gnu.org> wrote:

> Does anyone know why does the UCD define compatibility decompositions
> for Arabic initial, medial, and final forms, but doesn't do the same
> for Hebrew final letters, like U+05DD HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM? Or for
> that matter, for U+03C2 GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA?
>
> The relevant application where this would matter is text search, where
> these letters might be folded to the same code point for the purposes
> of comparison.

Such comparisons happen at a different level, I think.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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