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

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:34:09 -0400: Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

(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.)

That range is missing the Yiddish letters that are distinguished by
incorporation of overbars or Hebrew vowels, found scattered among the
Hebrew Presentation Forms range:

http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB00.pdf

Explanations at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_alphabet#The_Yiddish_alphabet.

See also:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/yiddish.htm
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/hebrew.htm
--
Ruud Harmsen

http://rudhar.com
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