Re: Are these languages left to right or right to left ? and windows.

On 2008-05-22, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

(about the difference between the Yiddish and Hebrew writing systems)

Yiddish uses a complete alphabet (not an abjad or abjad + matres
lectionis); it does not put (optional) vowel points under consonant
letters. Some of its vowel letters have the shape of consonant + vowel
point, but the "vowel points" are not omissible and cannot be placed
under any consonant letters.

(Sorry for the late reply, but I just thought of this.)

Do you have a technical term to say that two scripts belong to two
different categories but use predominantly the same characters?


I think the people I've known who did a lot of work on computer
processing with non-Roman scripts would probably consider Yiddish and
Hebrew scripts the same because you can use the same set of glyphs.
(For example, there's a single Unicode range for them both, which
contains three Yiddish-only ligatures. See
http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0590.pdf
if you're interested.)


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