Re: Folding algorithm and canonical equivalence

[Mark E. Shoulson]

Jony Rosenne wrote:
 

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Subject: Re: Folding algorithm and canonical equivalence

   

Jony is arguing to extend AccentFolding to Hebrew (fold to 
unpointed). His 
suggestion is to fold *all* combining marks used with Hebrew 
in that case. 
I want to double check that he really means all combining 
marks in the 
Hebrew block, or just some of them.

   

I did mean all. All points and cantillation marks in Hebrew are optional.
 

I can't think of any combining mark in the Hebrew block that should be 
left intact when performing such a folding operation.  Perhaps a human 
printer making text unpointed might leave one or two in place in 
ambiguous cases, but nothing that a computer could know

Jony's right: when it's down to brass tacks in Hebrew, it's consonants 
and whitespace (and punctuation, I guess).

~mark