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Re: [b-hebrew] Babylonian pointing

From: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Babylonian pointing
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:31:56 +0000

On 9/13/05, Ken Penner wrote:
> Does anyone know if the Babylonian vowel marks been proposed or approved
> for the Unicode standard?

I looked it up some more. Apparently, it has been proposed:
http://lashonkodesh.org/bavelpro.pdf
but is not accepted yet. See these minutes on the unicode website:
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/utc-minutes/UTC-100-200408.html#100-A20

I am not so sure about whether indeed it is best to keep it just
"change a font".

Yitzhak Sapir

[b-hebrew] Babylonian pointing, Ken Penner, 09/13/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Babylonian pointing, Yitzhak Sapir, 09/13/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Babylonian pointing, Yitzhak Sapir, 09/13/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Babylonian pointing, Peter Kirk, 09/13/2005