Hebrew script in IDN (was Exemplar Characters) (original) (raw)

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Quoting Mark E. Shoulson:

>> Not apostrophe and quotation mark, I take it.
>
> No, U+05F3 and U+05F4 ... 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

Several other contributors to the thread on Exemplar Characters also
stated that these two characters are essential to Hebrew
orthography. See also:

http://www.smontagu.org/writings/HebrewNumbers.html

Why are they not listed in the table at:

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/data/idnchars.txt

This permits Hebrew auxiliary marks that are arguably far less
necessary for IDN. What's the problem with the GERESH and GERSHAYIM?

/Cary

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