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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Jony Rosenne <rosennej AT qsm.co.il>
  • Cc: 'Biblical Hebrew' <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>, hebrew AT unicode.org, 'Michael Everson' <everson AT evertype.com>, 'Biblical Languages' <biblical-languages AT lists.ibiblio.org>, 'Hebrew Computing list' <hebrewcomputing AT yahoogroups.com>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Re: [hebrew] Re: Hebrew marks in ISO 8957 but not in Unicode
  • Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:28:55 -0700

On 01/10/2003 14:47, Jony Rosenne wrote:

The Israeli NB had asked ISO to cancel this standard. I doubt it will make a
case to the contrary.

Jony


This is not a matter in which the views of the Israeli NB should be decisive. It is of course true that the characters in question are not used in modern Israeli Hebrew. But they are used in ancient texts, there is good evidence for them (at least for some of them), and they are important for scholars. For this reason they have a place in the Unicode standard, along with many other historic characters in every script.

These characters also have a place in legacy standards, and so (until there is a general policy of cancelling all legacy standards) ISO 8957 can reasonably be cancelled only if all of the characters in it are incorporated into SII 1311 and thence potentially into ISO 8859-8.

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