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Re: A call for arms - the future of Hebrew in the digital age



> Now, "logical" hebrew, so I was told is 99% similar to some open
> standart that Eli Marmor (which is an exclenet source ;-) says exists.

Thanks for the compliment. However, it was another one who mentioned
this number, not me. You can check the messages in your Trash
folder. I didn't say "99%", and I didn't say higher or lower number.
I simply didn't referred to this issue at all.

BTW: Don't blame M$ for pushing "their" standard. I had today a long
talk with Michael Eitan and Shmil Ginzberg, and I learned amazing
fact: The adoption of the Hebrew standard in this project was
dictated by the ...government. M$ tried to argue (!), but the
government didn't give up, and forced Microsoft to agree. If you are
happy with this standard, thank the government (and not Microsoft),
and if you are not happy with this standard, blame the government
(and not Microsoft). Seems that most of the thread was based on
incorrect speculations, so let's remove all the messages regarding
to this issue from the protocol.

Some people attacked the implicit/logical standard for being
proprietary and claimed that it is not documented anywhere. You may
think it to yourself, but before broadcasting these bullshit to
hundreds of subscribers, please check the facts. Or at least, AT
LEAST (!!!), make a simple search on the web. You could find
interesting facts; such as the "Unicode volume 2" for sale on the
http://www.amazon.com . I purchased it from amazon about a year or
half ago. It contains the complete BiDi algorithm. Other issues
which the BiDi involves, such as special HTML tags, are documented
in various International standards. The Israeli Standards Institute
is drafting some standards too.

-- 
Eli Marmor