https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30611

--- Comment #14 from Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> 2011-08-31 
17:01:52 UTC ---
Created attachment 8994
  --> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=8994
an idea for a function with a dotted circle

Zack, thank you for making me notice the dotted circle use in Hebrew. In fact,
it's not implemented correctly for Hebrew. The current code for Hebrew says [
"\u05b0\u25cc", "\u05b0" ], where \u05b0 is a vowel diacritic ("niqqud") and
\u25cc is the dotted circle. The dotted circle is supposed to come before the
diacritic sign, not after it.

The dotted circle is used a lot in the Hebrew section (incorrectly). It is also
used (correctly) in several sections for Indian languages, such as Sinhala and
Gujarati. And it will be useful for Arabic and more languages. Instead of
repeating it all the time, maybe it can be factored out to a function?

I wrote this proof of concept function and i am attaching it as a patch. It's
only for testing, not for committing. I'm not much of a JS guru - i didn't know
what would be the best place to put it, so i just put it in the beginning of
the file. It works for me, but i've got a hunch that there's a better location
for it.

Its logic can also be more clever - for example, it can take an array of
characters and return all the needed diacritics at once.

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