Moshe Zadka wrote:
>On Sun, 19 May 2002, Uri Bruck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>The Hebrew alphabet also remained pretty much constant for the last 2K
>>years, and is flexible enough to serve well three languages
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>you believe there is something holy about it, I don't see the point
>with sticking with a design decision made 5k years ago and which
>only made sense with the technology at that time.
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I'm writing this mail on Mozilla, fighting a horrible editing bug that
strikes as soon as Mozilla decides that there is a reason to do RTL
editing on the text. As can be gleaned from that last sentance, I am a
strong supporter of keeping Linux-IL English oriented (בלי לנסות לטעון
שאי אפשר לשים משפט אחד בעברית לפעמים).
Despite that fact, I strongly disagree with the sentiment my squeeshing
friend expresses. I think Hebrew is the language most of us speak (even
if most of us speak it poorly), and I am not in favour of loosing its
alphabet. Not because it is good, but because that is the alphabet that
came with the language (yes, I know, it's not).
My point is that the reasons for keeping the Asuric alphabet are not
practical, they are emotional. As such, there is no point in trying to
talk sense into us, because sense is not what's keeping us away.
Personally, I am willing to bite the leather and do my share. The only
reason you have not already seen any patches torwards a Hebrew speaking
Wine is because there was a chance of someone else doing it better. I
assure you that you will start seeing them now.
Shachar
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