Re: [emacs-bidi] Summary of bidi branch?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:48:48 +0200
> 
> U+05F0        HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE VAV (U+05F0)
> U+05F1        HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH VAV YOD (U+05F1)
> U+05F2        HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE YOD (U+05F2)

They are marked Yiddish because Hebrew words never use such
combinations of letters.  But otherwise they are part of the Hebrew
character set.

> That people writing occasional Yiddish texts might not be used to a
> Hebrew typewriter and would rather get along with the Latin-character
> input based YIVO transliterations.

You could indeed use YIVO, but you could also simply use German.
That's because many Yiddish words are actually Hebrew transliterations
of German words, and even words whose origin is Hebrew are written in
Latin-like transliterations, by adding transliterations of vowels
which the Hebrew original doesn't consider part of the word.  For
example, where in a Hebrew word an `a' is pronounced, the Yiddish
transliteration would add an `א', where `e' is pronounced, it would
add a `ע', etc.