On 11/11/2002 11:12:55 AM Michael Everson wrote: >Are there not minimal pairs in Hebrew where the final form would be >expected but isn't used for some reason? There certainly is for final >sigma, which is why it is a good thing it is encoded separately.
I agree that there are valid reasons for encoding these as distinct characters. When we did our implementations for Biblical Greek and Hebrew several years ago, we weren't aware of those reasons; for the texts we were concerned with it seemed quite appropriate to assume that there is only one sigma character. My objection wasn't to there being two sigmas but to the the claim that "nobody" considers them to be representable by a single character. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
