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From: "fweimer at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: libc-locales@sourceware.org
Subject: [Bug localedata/25970] Hebrew is using general punctuation instead of native
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 14:40:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-25970-716-4pa7JFi1P4@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-25970-716@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25970

--- Comment #3 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to sh.yaron@gmail.com from comment #2)
> (In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #1)
> > The one problem I see is that neither U+05F3 nor U+05F4 are present in
> > Latin-8. They are available in Windows-1255. But maybe this is not a problem
> > because everyone uses UTF-8 nowadays?
> > 
> > What would be the appropriate ASCII transliteration for U+05F3 and U+05F4?
> 
> If I understand you correctly then the current form is good enough in terms
> of Latin8, but for Windows 1255 or Unicode these both have the standard
> symbols.

Good to know, thanks.

> Is there an option for dual selection?

I think we can transliterate ׳ to ' and ״ to ". Then ISO-8859-8 should get the
current form, and Windows-1255 and UTF-8 the corrected one, after we make the
locale changes you proposed.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-12 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-11 13:33 [Bug localedata/25970] New: Hebrew is using general punctuation instead of sh.yaron at gmail dot com
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 [this message]
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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