I'm sorry that you haven't gotten responses before. I have searched through my email archive, and can't find anything like the message, and I don't think it was brought up to the UTC formally.
The first one seems odd, and as you say, it would seem to only affect a vanishingly small number of characters; since these are final character, one presumes there would be subsequent characters that would form a larger difference anyway. Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► “Eppur si muove” ◄ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matitiahu Allouche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 10:08 Subject: [bidi] Re: Unicode Collation Algorithm: 4.0 Update (beta) > I have submitted the following text on the Unicode Reporting form. > > This report relates to the collation tables for Hebrew as displayed in > http://www.unicode.org/charts/collation/beta/chart_Hebrew.html > > I have already formulated the following remarks in the past, but no action > has been taken, so I repeat them here. > > 1) Precedence of Dagesh over Final/non-Final: in the chart, the presence > or absence of Dagesh is a Secundary difference, while Final/non-Final is a > Tertiary difference. This is relevant only for letters Kaf and Pe. My > gut feeling says that Final/non-Final should have precedence over > Dagesh/no-Dagesh. > Note that the number of actual cases where this would make a difference is > probably *very* small. > > 2) There is something strange in the combinations of Shin with Dagesh and > dots: for all other letters, the form without Dagesh sorts before the form > with Dagesh. But Shin with Sin/Shin dot sort after their corresponding > combinations with Dagesh. I cannot imagine a justification for that. > > I have submitted those reservations to the Technical Committee 2109 of the > SII (Standards Institution of Israel, the Israeli NB), which deals with > Hebrew-related standards in IT, and the committee endorsed my point of > view. I can ask the committee to send you a confirmation letter if > required. > > I would like to see some action taken on my remarks this time, or at least > some justified refutation. > > > Shalom (Regards), Mati > Bidi Architect > Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts > IBM Israel > Phone: +972 2 5888802 Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 52 > 554160 > > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [bidi] Re: Unicode Collation Algorithm: 4.0 Update (beta) > > > There are also beta collation charts in: > > http://www.unicode.org/charts/collation/beta/ > > Mark > > >
