From: Jony Rosenne (jr@qsm.co.il)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2006 - 09:45:25 CST
For Hebrew, points are never considered as part of the alphabet. Nor are
they part of the minimum set whatever the definition.
05c4 is not even a point.
Jony
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> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Keutgen, Walter
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> To: Donald Z. Osborn; Simon Montagu
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> Subject: RE: CLDR: Bad exemplar chars for some locales
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> Donald,
>
> almost correct. See the CLDR instructions:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/cldr/wiki?SurveyToolHelp/characters.
> PLEASE FOLLOW THE HYPERLINK [Exemplar Characters].
>
> Please pay also attention to "tought as the alphabet" i.e.
> one may not exclude letters not used in genuine words of a
> language that uses Latin script e.g. "k" to be kept in "it".
> Probably one can derive a similar rule for other scripts.
>
> Best regards
>
> Walter Keutgen
> International Engineering Centre
> Unisys Belgium nv-sa
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> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Donald Z. Osborn
> Sent: Donnerstag, den 6. April 2006 11:58
> To: Simon Montagu
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> Subject: Re: CLDR: Bad exemplar chars for some locales
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> What is the general rule in this kind of situation? Another case is
> languages in
> Latin transcription that can have tone marks, but generally don't use
> them, and
> others that generally do but not necessarily, etc. The case is a bit
> complicated where precomposed accented characters can be used
> for ASCII base
> characters but don't exist for extended characters.
>
> It almost seems like there ought to be an "tone and vowel mark"
> category between
> the standard set and the auxiliary set. But then again maybe
> (1) the standard
> set does not have to do with frequency of usage (so points in
> Hebrew, accents
> in Bambara etc. should be there if they are part of the
> transcription system)
> and (2) I should look at the good old Effing Manual to clarify my
> understanding
> of "auxiliary" (which I take to mean characters "not used" in the
> language that
> might be for borrowed and transcribed foreign terms).
>
> Don Osborn
> Bisharat.net
> PanAfrican Localisation Project
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