Peter Kirk wrote: > Similarly, Hebrew geresh and gershayim look like quotation > marks and are used interchangeably in legacy encodings, > the same with maqaf and hyphen > - maqaf is very much the cultural equivalent of hyphen, and I > have seen recent discussion about whether the hyphen key on a > Hebrew keyboard ought actually to generate a maqaf.
No, wait. The fact that maqaf id the cultural (and visual) equivalent of a hyphen, is a good reason to *exclude* it from class <Pattern_Syntax>, i.e. *allow* it in identifiers, so that composite words can be used as identifier. > As an ordinary Latin hyphen is already in the list, by your > argument there is no reason to exclude other things that > look like it and function like it. I guess that the only reason why the ASCII '-' is included in <Pattern_Syntax> is that it is also used as "minus". If if only had the meaning "hyphen", it would not be in <Pattern_Syntax>. _ Marco
