[Fribidi-discuss] final forms in Hebrew

[Noah Levitt]

Thanks, Dov. I'll ask ivrix-discuss.

I can see that doing final letters as presentation forms
would make some things more complicated. I just happened to
be looking at an input method, and in that case,
presentation forms would make things simpler. ;-)

Peace,
Noah

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at  8:19:34 +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> 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
>