On Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:18 PM, John Cowan wrote: > Is not U+FB35 HEBREW LETTER VAV WITH DAGESH a shuruq?
Only graphically. Different pronunciation, different names, different functions grammatically. Old typewriters used to have only a single key for the lower case letter 'l' and the digit '1'. (Change your font if you can't see the difference.) Sometimes, Unicode is an old typewriter. > > 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.... > > Holam male would be more like a LETTER, since it is not a combining mark. Yes, if it has to be a choice between MARK or LETTER, I'd prefer LETTER. I was hoping for something else, though, like VOWEL or VOWEL SIGN, since that's really what it is, not what it's "more like". 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/
