From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Sat Jul 17 2004 - 22:25:06 CDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 2:46 AM
> To: Peter Kirk; Unicode List
> Cc: jcowan@reutershealth.com
> Subject: Re: Folding algorithm and canonical equivalence
>
>
> Thank you for reviewing this.
>
> DiacriticFolding (unlike AccentFolding) is selective about
> which combining
> marks it removes for which base character. I wonder whether
> that's truly
> intended, or whether it could be replaced by a combination of
>
> AccentFolding
> OtherDiacriticFolding
>
> where AccentFolding removes *all* nonspacing marks following
> Latin, Greek
> or Cyrillic letters and we would remove from DiacriticFolding
> all cases
> that are already handled by accent folding.
>
> That still doesn't take care of Hebrew, so we would need to
> decide how to
> handle that. Perhaps you would like to put forth a proposal
> as to what
> accents or diacritics should be folded for Hebrew, and in
> what context. Is
> it just Dagesh?
All.
In Hebrew it is quite common to omit them all.
Jony
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