History of Unicoding Hebrew

[Elaine Keown]

Elaine Keown
Bryan, Texas

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Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 16:03:36 EDT
Can anyone point me to documentation on the history
of Hebrew in Unicode? Origins, people, meetings,
controversies, proposals, timeline,
relationship to encoding Arabic, etc. I couldn't

There is general information on the history of
computerizing Hebrew , starting in 1959, in my
published article "Hebrew alphabets, symbols, and
computer codes," Revue des Etudes Juives, Jan/Jun
2002. The article contains diverse errors (I have NO
affiliation with any group whatsoever at UPenn) and is
an older, simpler version of my research.

The article covers what are, unfortunately, two
separate histories:
1) public Hebrew standards
2) private, academic efforts to computerize pointed
Hebrew

In addition, it gives a list with documentation of the
complete, "extended" Hebrew character set.

I was told third-hand that in the late 1980s some
prominent technical people from the SBL (Society of
Biblical Literature) tried to communicate with Unicode
about their private academic Hebrew code, which
contained most of the marks we are currently arguing
about. I was also told that they were ignored by
whomever they contacted.

Elaine

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[Elaine Keown]

Elaine Keown
Bryan, Texas

Hello:

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Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 16:03:36 EDT
Can anyone point me to documentation on the history
of Hebrew in Unicode? Origins, people, meetings,
controversies, proposals, timeline,
relationship to encoding Arabic, etc. I couldn't

There is general information on the history of
computerizing Hebrew , starting in 1959, in my
published article "Hebrew alphabets, symbols, and
computer codes," Revue des Etudes Juives, Jan/Jun
2002. The article contains diverse errors (I have NO
affiliation with any group whatsoever at UPenn) and is
an older, simpler version of my research.

The article covers what are, unfortunately, two
separate histories:
1) public Hebrew standards
2) private, academic efforts to computerize pointed
Hebrew

In addition, it gives a list with documentation of the
complete, "extended" Hebrew character set.

I was told third-hand that in the late 1980s some
prominent technical people from the SBL (Society of
Biblical Literature) tried to communicate with Unicode
about their private academic Hebrew code, which
contained most of the marks we are currently arguing
about. I was also told that they were ignored by
whomever they contacted.

Elaine

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[Michael Everson]

I was told third-hand that in the late 1980s some prominent
technical people from the SBL (Society of Biblical Literature) tried
to communicate with Unicode about their private academic Hebrew
code, which contained most of the marks we are currently arguing
about. I was also told that they were ignored by whomever they
contacted.

I do NOT think that reporting this kind of rumour is appropriate.
Facts, please.
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[Elaine Keown]

Elaine Keown
central Texas
Hello,

Post by Michael Everson

Post by Elaine Keown
I was told third-hand that in the late 1980s some
prominent..... I was also told that they were
ignored by whomever they contacted.

I do NOT think that reporting this kind of rumour is
appropriate.
Facts, please.

You're right---I should have written him
privately and referred him to the parties in
question, whose names were also given to me by two
people on separate occasions. It's difficult for me
to figure out how to handle all these things.
---Elaine

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[Michael Everson]

Post by Michael Everson
Facts, please.

You're right---I should have written him privately and referred him
to the parties in question, whose names were also given to me by two
people on separate occasions. It's difficult for me to figure out
how to handle all these things.

It takes time, as people will tell you in reference to me, I am sure. ;-)
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