Almost forgot to mention, 05A0 HEBREW ACCENT TELISHA GEDOLA, 059D HEBREW ACCENT GERESH MUQDAM both should be 229 "Above_Right_RTL"
-- Maxim. On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Maxim Iorsh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I propose to change combining classes for certain Hebrew accents. > > Presently, the Hebrew accents belong to one of the following classes: 220 > (below), 222 (below right), 228 (above left), 230 (above). Accordingly, the > canonical ordering puts "below" accents before "below right" accents, for > example. > > Unfortunately, the resulting order is wrong. As Hebrew is a right-to-left > script, the accents which are located below the letter on the right should > go *before* accents which reside below the letter in the middle. The same > goes for accents above letters. > > My proposal is to modify the combining class property as follows: > > 059A HEBREW ACCENT YETIV: ccc=219 "Below_Right_RTL" > 05AD HEBREW ACCENT DEHI: ccc=219 "Below_Right_RTL" > 05AE HEBREW ACCENT ZINOR: ccc=231 "Above_Left_RTL" > > Alternatively, existing class 218 "Below_Left" could be assigned to 059A, > 05AD and possibly renamed to "Below_Char_Start" or something similar, so > that it means "left" for LTR scripts and "right" for RTL scripts. The class > 232 "Above_Right" could be assigned to 05AE and renamed accordingly. > > Thank you, > -- Maxim. > > P. S. In a related note, does anybody know why Hebrew marks (05B0-05C7) > are assigned fixed combining classes? It looks like most of them would be > perfectly ok with 220 "Below" class, or other appropriate non-fixed classes. >
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