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

[Omer Zak <omerz actcom co il>]

Just for reference, the Unicode 3.0 standard defines the following
characters:

Mixed hyphen+math:
------------------
U+002D - hyphen-minus (the character which is causing all those troubles
         in Hebrew BiDi text processing)

Hyphen only:
------------
U+2010 - hyphen
U+2011 - nonbreaking hyphen
U+2012 - figure dash
U+2013 - en dash
U+2014 - em dash

Math only:
----------
U+2212 - minus sign (as math operation)

                                             --- Omer
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Tzafrir Cohen
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