From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon May 14 2007 - 01:27:16 CDT
This was heavily discussed last year, and the various findings were that it
was a very complex issue (made even more complex because of normalization
issues related to the ordering of the needed diacritics). Other issues also
exist with the correct positioning of these diacritics between base letters.
So more studies were felt needed involving experts in the region and the
rare Semitists that wok on old Semitic texts (including also the need for
handling the transition from Phoenician, and to other Semitic scripts, like
Syriac, or early Greek transcriptions). Now this should be discussed on the
separate Unicode Hebrew discussion list.
Be prepared to know a lot how Unicode normalization works, and why this is
complex to add vocalization on top of the existing encoding of the modern
(simplified) Hebrew script.
Anyway the hot discussions last years on the Hebrew list have paced down a
lot, and the Hebrew list is nearly inactive. Let's hope that the various
subscribers on this list are working together, and discussing with the few
experts around the world (and this takes time when there's not much money to
finance such development outside of religious communities, or the various
experts are part of small communities and copies of the needed accurate
documents are so difficult to get.)
Are there some other expert groups working in the large and wellknown public
libraries and universities? Do they meet in some conference? Are there
students writing research papers from their discoveries in large religious
archives? Are there legal or political issues against such disclosure of
information?
If most of the work is made by fervent hobbyists, may be they lack time and
money to complete their projects and agree on a common proposal backed by a
strong (but evolvable) encoding model (including a roadmap to avoid future
interoperability issues).
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] De la
> part de Petr Tomasek
> Envoyé : lundi 14 mai 2007 07:12
> À : unicode@unicode.org
> Objet : Is someone work on hebrew palestinian/babylonian punctuation?
>
>
> Hello!
>
> I'd like to ask if someone is working on a proposal to
> encode the historic alternate systems for Hebrew
> vocals / accents, i.e. the so-called palestinian
> and babylonian vocalization?
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