Re: Concerning the hyphen confusion in BiDi (was: Re: Bidirectional Bugs in Hebrew)

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir technion ac il>]

Hi

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> I don't think there is such a thing as "hebrew hyphen" (nor even "RTL hyphen")
> But, on the other hand, there is "minus/dash" and "soft-hyphen" (and also
> typographic "en dash" and "em dash"); only the "minus/dash" is a problem,
> as it is not a neutral character like the others but is considered to have
> the same properties as numbers (and possibly other mathematical symbols).

Hi

just one note:

in the previous thread in ivrix-discuss it was mentioned that soft-hyphen
won't do the job:
http://ivrix.org.il/mailing-lists/ivrix-discuss/2000/10/0052.html

IIRC unicode does have a seperate hyphen character. Any idea if most
unicode fonts contain it?

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Tzafrir Cohen
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