Shachar Shemesh wrote on 2003-10-04: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > >It is not a bug. It a feature (standard conformance). > > > Well, maybe it's a feature of OpenOffice. It's still a bug in the standard. > But what about the cases when you do want a negative number?
> Being as it is that there is no legacy way of producing a hyphen, the > Unicode standard must accept that minus is used instead. Any attempt to > insist on it being "correct" in the face of real life is simply absurd. > There is no legacy way of producing many other symbols, which should not drive Unicode. Let the cruft die as quick as possible ;). The real point is that typographically you should use the maqaf rather than western hyphens after hebrew letters (can somebody confirm this?), so people should switch to maqaf anyway. I can attest from my experience with geresh that converting a typed minus to the maqaf is the preceding character is a Hebrew character does the right thing 99% percent of the time. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
