[Fribidi-discuss] final forms in Hebrew

[Dov Grobgeld]

As far as I know it is because of historic reasons and legacy
reasons. There are some abbreviations, e.g. which require a non-
final form at the end, which would for Unicode mean using a ZWJ.
I guess that they decided that the additional complication just
wasn't worth it. You might want to ask on the Ivrix list as
well. There is a guy there called Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne at qsm.co.il>,
who is active on the Israeli standard. I believe that he was
also involved on the Unicode standard.

Regards,
Dov

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:13:32PM -0500, Noah Levitt wrote:
> Dear fribidi,
> 
> I debated which list to address this question to. I picked
> this one because I think it's the most likely to know the
> answer and not flame me. :)
> 
> Why are final forms (final mem, final nun, final tsadik,
> etc) in Hebrew script treated as separate characters,
> instead of presentation glyphs as in Arabic?
> 
> Peace,
> Noah
> 
> 
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