I have submitted the following text on the Unicode Reporting form.
This report relates to the collation tables for Hebrew as displayed in
http://www.unicode.org/charts/collation/beta/chart_Hebrew.html
I have already formulated the following remarks in the past, but no action
has been taken, so I repeat them here.
1) Precedence of Dagesh over Final/non-Final: in the chart, the presence
or absence of Dagesh is a Secundary difference, while Final/non-Final is a
Tertiary difference. This is relevant only for letters Kaf and Pe. My
gut feeling says that Final/non-Final should have precedence over
Dagesh/no-Dagesh.
Note that the number of actual cases where this would make a difference is
probably *very* small.
2) There is something strange in the combinations of Shin with Dagesh and
dots: for all other letters, the form without Dagesh sorts before the form
with Dagesh. But Shin with Sin/Shin dot sort after their corresponding
combinations with Dagesh. I cannot imagine a justification for that.
I have submitted those reservations to the Technical Committee 2109 of the
SII (Standards Institution of Israel, the Israeli NB), which deals with
Hebrew-related standards in IT, and the committee endorsed my point of
view. I can ask the committee to send you a confirmation letter if
required.
I would like to see some action taken on my remarks this time, or at least
some justified refutation.
Shalom (Regards), Mati
Bidi Architect
Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
IBM Israel
Phone: +972 2 5888802 Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 52
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Subject: [bidi] Re: Unicode Collation Algorithm: 4.0 Update (beta)
There are also beta collation charts in:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/collation/beta/
Mark
