At 08:26 -0700 2004-05-24, John Hudson wrote:
Because they want to search documents in the Hebrew *language* using Hebrew characters in search strings?
They can do that.
Because they don't want to guess in what script variant an online corpus is encoded when doing searches?
They have to already, since many use Latin transliteration.
Because plain-text distinction of script variant text in the same language is just about the least important thing in their work?
Other people have other work.
Because they have yet to see a good argument for why anyone would need to make such a distinction?
They don't want to see the arguments as good. That doesn't mean they aren't good arguments.
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