From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 11:07:59 CST
Michael Everson wrote:
> At 06:59 +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.
No, U+05F3 and U+05F4. Other punctuation marks are used, but we didn't
list punctuation with the French alphabet either. On the other hand,
you can't spell some (foreign-loaned) Modern Hebrew words without
U+05F3, and U+05F4 is necessary for abbreviations, even those which are
treated as verbs (e.g. תנ״כי as an adjective ("Biblical") from תנ״ך, an
acronym meaning "the Bible")
>> Other characters, such as the points and accents, are not commonly
>> used and
>> are not implemented in a large proportion of systems and applications.
>
>
> Not commonly used? I have a copy of The Hobbit in Hebrew which is
> pointed all the way through.
There's the question: is that "commonly"? Or is it just in children's
literature and poetry and liturgy/scripture? Does that count as
"commonly" or not? And there are arguments to be had on that point
until the angels tire of dancing on pinheads.
~mark
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