Re: Biblical Hebrew (U+034F Combining Grapheme Joiner works)

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Fri Jun 27 2003 - 13:41:39 EDT

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Philippe Verdy wrote on 06/27/2003 04:46:56 AM:

> > Could this finally be the missing "killer ap" for the CGJ?
>
> It will be perfect to allow an application like XML to encode Hebrew
> text using Unicode 4.0 rules (and before).

It is not perfect. CGJ is supposed to be significant (and kept in the
text) for a variety of processes, such as searching and sorting. To use
this for Biblical Hebrew, though, it should be ignored in such processes.
It's another hack.

- Peter

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