I would like to summarize my understanding:
1. The sequence Lamed Patah Hiriq is invalid for Hebrew. It is invalid in
Hebrew to have two vowels for one letter. It may or may not be a valid
Unicode sequence, but there are many examples of valid Unicode sequences
that are invalid.
2. How the GUI
Believe it or not, the IJ and ij digraphs *were* included for
compatibility with an 8-bit legacy character set (ISO 6937).
6937 is a multibyte encoding (one or two bytes per character).
There are no combining characters at all in 6937, even though
there is a common misunderstanding that there
In either cases, the Soft_Dotted property is probably overkill on
the existing ij or IJ ligatures (should should have been better
There is no point in having a soft-dotted property for the capital
letter...
named letters and not ligatures) for Dutch. Or is this update
needed to document
On Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:55 PM, Jony Rosenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to summarize my understanding:
1. The sequence Lamed Patah Hiriq is invalid for Hebrew. It is
invalid in Hebrew to have two vowels for one letter. It may or may
not be a valid Unicode sequence, but
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Philippe Verdy wrote on 06/28/2003 02:48:01 AM:
If the user strikes the two keys patah and hiriq, the input method
for Traditional Hebrew will generate patah,CGJ,hiriq
That requires* an input method that is aware of the input context
I cannot agree with some of these statements. My comments are inserted.
Jony
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From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Jony Rosenne
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Kent Karlsson kentk at cs dot chalmers dot se wrote:
Believe it or not, the IJ and ij digraphs *were* included for
compatibility with an 8-bit legacy character set (ISO 6937).
6937 is a multibyte encoding (one or two bytes per character).
There are no combining characters at all in 6937,
[Inadvertently sent just to me; forwarded with Philippe's permission]
On Wednesday, July 02, 2003 7:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Philippe Verdy wrote on 06/28/2003 02:48:01 AM:
If the user strikes the two keys patah and hiriq, the input
method for Traditional Hebrew
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