On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> If standard purity was what Unicode mandated, they should have only
> defined 22 characters for Hebrew, like they did for Arabic (28). Put the
> final forms in some god-forsaken place, and have the display engine
> render them. They didn't do that, because real life dictates the fact
> that, practically, people use 27 characters for Hebrew, and changing
> that would break far too many existing applications.
Correction:
Hebrew is not strict about using final forms for characters at end of
words. Examples: abbreviations (roshei teivot) and words with special
pronounciation (Mubarak is an example which I have on mind).
The hyphen problem is not really a problem in the Unicode standard, but of
the text editors which do not automatically convert minus sign into hyphen
when the context expects it.
--- Omer
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