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The character rendering is much less context-dependent than Arabic, but Hebrew does have a few final forms which are different at the end of a word, so one can'
by schoen 3y ago
The character rendering is much less context-dependent than Arabic, but Hebrew does have a few final forms which are different at the end of a word, so one can't strictly say that Hebrew characters will never change as a result of adding additional text. Just not nearly as much as Arabic characters do!
Actually, I don't remember clearly how the different forms are handled by different character sets and if one would have to type them explicitly in some configurations. Surely on typewriters, but maybe not in Unicode?
- taneliv 3y agoTrue, I forgot those final forms in Hebrew. Perhaps my mind is conflating them with the initial capital letters of sentences and names in most text with Latin letters. On the different forms, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_script_in_Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_script_in_Unicode has a short summary. It is possible to type those contextual forms explicitly (they have their own code points), but "presentation forms are present only for compatibility with older standards, and are not currently needed for coding text."