[bt-devel] Re: Hebrew text rendering

[anthony kerr]

Martin

I have done some further investigation, and now I think it 
might be an issue with the Hebrew module.

I have been looking at 1 Sam 3:1 lately, I'll draw some 
examples from here, by comparing the WLC module and the 
text found at http://www.mechon-mamre.org/c/ct/c08a03.htm

The mechon-mamre text does render properly in konqueror, in 
this case the WLC bibletime text also renders properly with 
the cantillation marks turned on, BUT it doesn't with 
cantillation marks turned off.

I copied the 2nd last word of vs 1 "vision" into yudit from 
both sources and found different unicode encodings.

Cantillation marks on
  mechon mamre has for the waw  - [fb4b] 05d5 05b9
                                for the zayin  - 05d6 0596

  WLC has for the waw  - 05d5
                for the zayin  - 05d6 05b9 0596

Cantillation marks off
  mechon mamre has for the waw  - [fb4b] 05d5 05b9
                                for the zayin  - 05d6

  WLC has for the waw  - 05d5
                for the zayin  - 05d6 05b9

It appears that the holem in the WLC module is binding to 
the zayin, and not the waw. Now this is not a problem with 
cantillation marks turned on, but it is when they are off. 
It appears that fb4b is part of the unicode standard and 
thusmay be a better encoding.

please see www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB00.pdf

What do you think?

hope this helps
in Christ
anthony kerr


On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:56 pm, you wrote:
> I have an ongoing problem which I think goes deeper than
> Bibletime, because it exists in Konqueror as well.
> However, Mozilla using Pango does not have this rendering
> bug.
>
> holem waw and sometimes yod will collapse into the
> previous consonant .
>
> How should I go about pursuing this bug? It is very
> annoying if somewhat minor.
>
> in Christ
> anthony Kerr