Contextual rule for MODIFIER LETTER PRIME?

Patrik Fältström patrik at frobbit.se
Wed Jul 15 14:58:27 CEST 2009


On 5 nov 2008, at 03.15, Mark Davis wrote:

> For example those
> for MODIFIER LETTER PRIME (used in romanized Cyrillic as well as  
> Greek) which can be a final characters in words, but the rules  
> require to be followed by a Hebrew letter, when "-" should also be  
> allowed.


Is what you say that the existing rules:

> Appendix A.6.  MODIFIER LETTER PRIME
>    Code point:
>       U+02B9
>    Overview:
>       Permitted only in contexts in which GREEK LOWER NUMERAL SIGN,
>       U+0375, is permitted.  GREEK NUMERAL SIGN, U+0374, and the Lower
>       Numeral Sign (U+0375) are indicators for numeric use of  
> letters in
>       older Greek writing systems.  U+02B9 is relevant because
>       normalization maps U+0374 into it.
>    Lookup:
>       False
>    Rule Set:
>       True;
>       For All Characters:
>          If Script(cp) .ne.  Greek Then False;
>       End For;

...should be changed so that script cyrillic, or '-' as adjacent  
character makes this ok?

Can you please provide a new rule that works?

    Patrik

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