Kenneth Whistler wrote on 06/26/2003 10:15:12 PM: > How does a user of pointed Hebrew text know whether they are > dealing with the legacy points...
Ken, corresponding arguments apply equally to your suggestion of putting CGJ everywhere and letting software make it transparent to the user: how does the user distinguish between implementations intended for Modern Hebrew / Yiddish / etc. which do not have special processing for CGJ, and implenentations intended for Biblical Hebrew that do? > What happens if they edit text represented in one > scheme with a tool meant for the other? Ditto. > What about searches > on data with pointed Hebrew -- should it normalize the two > sets of points or not? The users aren't going to insert a bunch of CGJs. Should software treat representations with and without (or partially with) as equivalent? Etc. The problem lies with incorrect assumptions related to canonical combining classes and the requirements of Biblical Hebrew when the characters were added. I think *any* of the solutions we've been looking at is going to leave multiple parties "holding some part of the can". - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
