On 24/11/2004 20:22, Jony Rosenne wrote:
Ketiv and Qere, were two different words are written together, are not plainThe forms I refer to are the ones printed, and before that handwritten, in almost every Hebrew Bible. They are the plain text. The separate Ketiv and Qere forms are the results of scholarly analysis of the printed or handwritten text. If there is anything which is not plain text, it is these Ketiv and Qere forms.
text and are thus out of scope for Unicode.
For Unicode, one could either choose one version or the other or write them both separately.
Nevertheless, there is a real demand to reproduce in Unicode the Ketiv and Qere forms as well as the forms as printed. See for example http://www.logos.com/hebrew/bhs, where all three forms are shown (for Jeremiah 5:6). It is good therefore that Unicode (with the recently approved enhancements) now supports all three forms.
-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.qaya.org/
