Given that a few people regularly seem to have a hard time sending their responses to the appropriate list, I wonder if a rule could be set up to reject messages that are coming from those people and that also have "[Hebrew]" in the subject field? That might get their attention. :-)
Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Philippe Verdy > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:57 AM > To: Peter Kirk > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [hebrew] Re: Holam background document > > From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > These characters are also ignored except with respect to specific, > > > defined processes; for example, ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER is ignored in > > > collation. > > > > And the example is precisely the case which concerns me most. The > > preference for HOLAM is that the distinction between the two should be > > "ignored except with respect to specific, defined processes", and the > > easiest way to do that is to distinguish between them with a default > > ignorable character, like ZWNJ or a variation selector. > > Another good point Peter: ZWNJ will not be suitable to make distinctions > between holam male and vav haluma, as this distinction is lost in every > collation... How can we accept that loss of semantic during collation, when > this should be clearly tailorable? >
