Re: The fate of Hebrew texts with Hyphen-Minus instead of Maqaf

Addison Phillips [wM] scripsit:

> It may be the case that the character sequence isn't optimal, but I think
> that is a quibble at best. Users generally do not care what the character
> sequence in memory is, only with the results on the display (the graphemes).

I agree with most of what you are saying, but not this bit.  Word processing/
typesetting users may only care about appearance, but people who have to
search or sort or count or otherwise *process* text do care very much about
(the consequences of) the encoding.

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