[Biblical-languages] Unicode proposals for apparatus symbols,
Biblical Hebrew
Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
Thu Jun 26 12:02:27 EDT 2003
Peter_Constable at sil.org wrote:
>Peter Kirk wrote on 06/26/2003 10:55:32 AM:
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>>so, I cannot see the biblical Hebrew community in Israel, which is a
>>considerable proportion of the whole and regularly uses modern Hebrew as
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>>well, accepting any proposal which draws an artificial line between
>>biblical and modern Hebrew.
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>I'd need to have direct input from such people before I'd be convinced one
>way or the other.
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I'll try to get some for you.
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>>PK: OK, let's just deprecate the existing Hebrew nikud and meteg. That
>>doesn't impact the huge majority of modern Hebrew texts which don't use
>>them. It impacts basically only those using the existing nikud, which
>>are broken anyway.
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>That would break existing implementations for modern hebrew, and I
>strongly doubt it would be accepted.
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The problem here is that those existing implementations are widely used
also for biblical Hebrew, especially by Israeli and other Jewish
scholars of biblical Hebrew, who will commonly use vowels but probably
not accents.
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>- Peter
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>Peter Constable
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