BibliaLS and Unicode Hebrew transliteration characters
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I have discovered an interesting...quirk in the Unicode encoding of
transliterated Hebrew in Logos resources. The Hebrew letter aleph is
rendered as the Unicode character U+02D2 (“Modifier Letter Centered Right Half
Ring”), and ayin is rendered as U+02D3 (“Modifier Letter Centered Left
Half Ring”). The standard transliteration characters are U+02BE (“Modifier
Letter Right Half Ring”) and U+02BF (“Modifier Letter Right Half Ring”),
respectively.
The text looks OK if I am using the BibliaLS font, since its “centered”
versions of the half-rings are actually raised like the regular versions.
However, if I use any font other than BibliaLS, all the alephs
and ayins appear too low relative to the other letters, or produce an
empty box because the “centered” half-ring characters aren’t in most fonts.
Examples (I hope the fonts carry over):
Biblia LS: ˓Aśa˒el
Times New Roman: ˓Aśa˒el
This isn’t a problem in Logos, since
I can stick with BibliaLS, but it is troublesome if I copy the text into
another program.
(This isn't
related to the transliteration settings in Logos 4; this is for transliterated
text within the text of resources like the Anchor Bible Dictionary and the
BDB.)
Thanks,
Jack Collins