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

[Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne qsm co il>]

For the sake of completeness:

Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf - U+05be

Jony

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> [mailto:owner-ivrix-discuss ivrix org il]On Behalf Of Omer Zak
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 7:22 AM
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> Subject: Re: Concerning the hyphen confusion in BiDi (was: Re: 
> Bidirectional Bugs in Hebrew)
> 
> 
> 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)
> 
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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
> > mailto:tzafrir technion ac il
> > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
> 
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