> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 2:46 AM
> To: Peter Kirk; Unicode List
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Folding algorithm and canonical equivalence
> 
> 
> Thank you for reviewing this.
> 
> DiacriticFolding (unlike AccentFolding) is selective about 
> which combining 
> marks it removes for which base character. I wonder whether 
> that's truly 
> intended, or whether it could be replaced by a combination of
> 
> AccentFolding
> OtherDiacriticFolding
> 
> where AccentFolding removes *all* nonspacing marks following 
> Latin, Greek 
> or Cyrillic letters and we would remove from DiacriticFolding 
> all cases 
> that are already handled by accent folding.
> 
> That still doesn't take care of Hebrew, so we would need to 
> decide how to 
> handle that. Perhaps you would like to put forth a proposal 
> as to what 
> accents or diacritics should be folded for Hebrew, and in 
> what context. Is 
> it just Dagesh?

All. 

In Hebrew it is quite common to omit them all. 

Jony




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