Unicode Mail List Archive: RE: Exemplar Characters (original) (raw)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 07:54:46 CST

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At 15:36 +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.
>
>Yes to both. They are commonly used in abbreviations and acronyms, similar
>to the period in e.g. or i.e..

Surely Geresh and Gershayim.

-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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