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From: "sh.yaron at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org> To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug localedata/25970] New: Hebrew is using general punctuation instead of Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 13:33:16 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <bug-25970-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw) https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25970 Bug ID: 25970 Summary: Hebrew is using general punctuation instead of Product: glibc Version: unspecified Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: localedata Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org Reporter: sh.yaron at gmail dot com CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org Target Milestone: --- The current Hebrew implementation is using apostrophe and quotation mark for Hebrew days and years, for example: The current day form is: יום א' Should actually be: יום א׳ The current year form is: התש"ף or ה'תש"ף While it should be: התש״ף or ה׳תש״ף This change should create a more standardized Hebrew experience including some cosmetic changes, the Hebrew Geresh is RTL aligned in Unicode so inside an LTR context it will still appear at the end while apostrophe is agnostic and it will appear before the text (this is how it should work because of the context - my first example demonstrates this perfectly). Furthermore, both Geresh and Gershayim (in most fonts at least) should be stylized and their top should meet the top of the glyph height while the non-standard characters are "popping" above the glyph height. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
next reply other threads:[~2020-05-11 13:33 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2020-05-11 13:33 sh.yaron at gmail dot com [this message] 2020-05-11 13:36 ` [Bug localedata/25970] Hebrew is using general punctuation instead of native sh.yaron at gmail dot com 2020-05-11 13:53 ` fweimer at redhat dot com 2020-05-11 14:21 ` sourceware at hatul dot info 2020-05-12 14:30 ` sh.yaron at gmail dot com 2020-05-12 14:40 ` fweimer at redhat dot com 2020-05-12 15:24 ` fweimer at redhat dot com 2020-05-12 17:19 ` [Bug localedata/25970] Use Geresh in he_IL locale fweimer at redhat dot com 2020-05-12 17:32 ` fweimer at redhat dot com 2020-05-13 4:05 ` sh.yaron at gmail dot com 2020-05-13 6:44 ` fweimer at redhat dot com 2020-05-13 17:47 ` sh.yaron at gmail dot com
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