RE: Folding algorithm and canonical equivalence

[Michael Everson]

At 13:00 +0300 2004-07-18, Jony Rosenne wrote:
 > Jony is arguing to extend AccentFolding to Hebrew (fold to
 unpointed). His
 suggestion is to fold *all* combining marks used with Hebrew
 in that case.
 I want to double check that he really means all combining
 marks in the
 > Hebrew block, or just some of them.
I did mean all. All points and cantillation marks in Hebrew are optional.
In the Hebrew language, perhaps. But in other languages, like 
Yiddish, which use the Hebrew script, at least some points are NOT 
optional, and "dropping" them causes textual corruption and loss of 
data.
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