On Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:03 PM, Michael Everson wrote: > We do not encode any HEBREW VOWELs. We encode LETTERs and combining marks.
I agree with the "do not" if it's descriptive of current practice. If it's prescriptive, I'd have to ask why. (And please don't say "stability policy"! :)) There are exactly two Hebrew vowels that are spacing glyphs: holam male and shuruq. Neither one is encoded in Unicode. Neither one is a Hebrew letter (in the traditional sense) nor is either a combining mark. I thought some new nomenclature was in order. Since there are general category Lo code points with names like LAO VOWEL SIGN AA [0EB0], I went with that. (Maybe I shouldn't have dropped the "SIGN".) It seems wrong to be calling a base character a HEBREW MARK. It also seems a little odd to be calling a Hebrew vowel a HEBREW LETTER when every other HEBREW LETTER is a consonant. But if that's what convention requires.... Ted Ted Hopp, Ph.D. ZigZag, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-301-990-7453 newSLATE is your personal learning workspace ...on the web at http://www.newSLATE.com/
