Shalom BIDI gurus!
To distinguish, in Hebrew Unicode text, between quotation marks (מרכאות) and gershayim (גרשיים), I have been using for the opening quotation marks the unicode DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK U+201E (Windows-1255 0x84) and closing quotation marks the unicode LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK U+201C (Windows-1255: 0x93). For geshayim I used of course the unicode HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM U+05F4 (Windows-1255 0xD8). This arrangement looks best for me, although most modern books use (I think because of sheer laziness) the same glyph for all three (gershayim). However, I just noticed that Firefox 2.0.0.1 mirrors the LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK and displays instead the RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK U+201D (Windows-1255: 0x94). Firefox 1.5.0.9, Opera 9.10, and MSIE (sic) 6.0 All do not do it. Is this the correct behaviour under the UNICODE BIDI algorithm? Should I replace all my U+201C with U+201D so that they will look OK after mirroring? You can view my Web pages at http://JV.Gilead.org.il/hebrew/ and http://JV.Gilead.org.il/FAQ/index.he.html for examples of usage of these punctuation marks. Kol tuv, Zvi. -- Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Mathematics tel:+972-54-4227607 icq:179294841 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology fax:+972-4-8293388 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000, ISRAEL "If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." -- Thumper (1942) Thursday, 14 Shevat 5767, 1 February 2007, 11:08PM ================================================================= 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]
