Add a NEWS entry for the new hebrew table

snaekobbi · May 28, 2014 · e96f571 · e96f571
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@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ _ Fixed a bug in backtranslation, when a letsign was encountered, the
 - Fix for Norwegian where letsign is affecting some extra characters
   thanks to Lars Bjørndal
 - Much improved hyphenation for Norwegian thanks to Lars Bjørndal
+- New Hebrew table that is based on the new unified Hebrew Braille
+  code standard that was put together on January 2014 after a
+  conference with all of the specialists in this field in Israel. It
+  includes improved representation of Hebrew letters, special letters
+  that are called Nikud, and punctuation symbols. The old Braille
+  standard is not relevant any more. Thanks to Adi Kushnir.
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.5.4 (2014-3-3)
 This release contains nine months worth of braille table improvements

diff --git a/tables/he.ctb b/tables/he.ctb
@@ -21,11 +21,12 @@
 #  License along with liblouis. If not, see
 #  <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 #
-# This table is based on the Unesco report on the progress of unification of
-# braille writing « L'ÉCRITURE BRAILLE DANS LE MONDE », by Sir Clutha
-# MACKENZIE: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001352/135251fo.pdf
-# The document is dated 1954, so this table may be quite outdated.
-
+# This table is based on the new unified Hebrew Braille code standard
+# that was put together on January 2014 after a conference with all of
+# the specialists in this field in Israel. It includes improved
+# representation of Hebrew letters, special letters that are called
+# Nikud, and punctuation symbols. The old Braille standard is not
+# relevant any more.
 
 # generated by ttbtest
 space	\s	0	# SPACE