Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 01/10/2003 17:25, Jony Rosenne wrote:

> Peter,
>
> I was referring to the statement: "JTC1 is waiting for Israel to make a case
> for these, as they did when the TC46 standard was under development."
>
>  
Thank you for the clarification. JTC1 obviously should be waiting for 
input from the community of users of ISO 8957, who are probably not 
concentrated in Israel but scattered worldwide. From my limited 
knowledge of the procedures,it seems that the best channel for such 
input to the ISO committees is through the UTC, which represents users 
rather than national bodies.

> You contradict yourself in saying both "This is not a matter in which the
> views of the Israeli NB should be decisive" and expecting that "all of the
> characters in it are incorporated into SII 1311".
>
>  
I don't actually expect the latter. If the Israeli NB chooses to do so, 
ISO 8957 might then be considered redundant. As it probably won't, ISO 
8957 has an important place not least as the only standard way to 
represent the characters in question.

> Jony
>
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Kirk [mailto:peterkirk AT qaya.org] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:29 PM
> > To: Jony Rosenne
> > Cc: hebrew AT unicode.org; 'Biblical Languages'; 'Biblical 
> > Hebrew'; 'Hebrew Computing list'; 'Elaine Keown'; 'Michael Everson'
> > Subject: Re: [hebrew] Re: Hebrew marks in ISO 8957 but not in Unicode
> >
> >
> > 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. ...


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