Thanks. I fixed my pages. On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:13:21 +0200, Matitiahu Allouche wrote about "Re: Double quotation marks in Unicode Hebrew": > According to the Unicode standard (see > http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/BidiMirroring.txt ), the 2 characters at > 201C and 201D are mirroring mates, meaning that within a right-to-left > context, 201C should be displayed as Right Double Quotation Mark and 201D > should be displayed as Left Double Quotation Mark. > > It seems that Firefox 2.0.0.1 is doing the right thing. > > Shalom (Regards), Mati > Bidi Architect > Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts > IBM Israel > Phone: +972 2 5888802 Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 52 > 2554160 > > > > > "Zvi Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 01/02/2007 23:57 > > To > Israeli Linux Hackers List <linux-il@linux.org.il> > cc > > Subject > Double quotation marks in Unicode Hebrew > > > > > > > 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 > > ?ֻ›±?גmןלzwfj)m¢X§»ג—?ת×ח¬·שb??ל¢¸??\"¶a{+w?§²זלr¸›{ר§¶¦zֻ?זטw/??®ים…ח(?f§uח!¢יל¹»®&?f¢–X§»ג—?ת×ח¬·שb??ל¢¸?
-- 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) Tuesday, 18 Shevat 5767, 6 February 2007, 3:54PM ================================================================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]