Re: Composing Hebrew diacriticals

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Yair F <address@hidden> writes:

> This is the composition regexp : I added whitespace and comments for 
> readability

> \\(
> [\u05D0-\u05D4\u05D6-\u05E8\u05EA\u05F1-\u05F3] ;; base
>   [\u05BC\u05BF]?                               ;; 0-1 marks of 1st
> class (dagesh)
>   [\u05B0-\u05B9\u05BB\u05C7]?                  ;; 0-1 marks of 3rd
> class (niqud)
>   [\u0591-\u05AF\u05BD]*                        ;; 0-2 (possibly 3)
> marks of 4th class
> \\|
> \u05D5                                          ; base
>   \u05BC?                                       ;; 0-1 marks of 1st
> class (dagesh)
> [\u05B0-\u05BB\u05C7]?                          ;; 0-1 marks of
> extended 3rd class (niqud)
> [\u0591-\u05AF\u05BD]*                          ;; 0-2 (possibly 3)
> marks of 4th class
> \\|
> \u05E9                                          ; base
>   \u05BC                                       ;; 0-1 marks of 1st
> class (dagesh)
>   [\u05C1\u05C2]?                              ;; 0-1 marks of 2nd
> class (shin dot)
>   [\u05B0-\u05B9\u05BB\u05C7]?                  ;; 0-1 marks of 3rd
> class (niqud)
>   [\u0591-\u05AF\u05BD]*                        ;; 0-2 (possibly 3)
> marks of 4th class
> \\)

> What would be the best way in this case?
> In the most extreme case there are 6 marks attached to base character.

Thank you for the data.  As I'm now busy for fixing the
display problem of bidi-composition interaction, I'll reply
after that work is finished.

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Kenichi Handa
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