[bt-devel] Hebrew text rendering

[Martin Gruner]

Anthony,

thanks for the tips. It looks like WLC (the source text from WHI) has:

mem-vowel-waw

while Mechon-Mamre has:

mem-waw-vowel

In KDE this results in messed up display; however, in OpenOffice it looks 
different (there are other bugs, nevertheless). Do you know of an 
authoritative source about writing Hebrew in Unicode, esp. with regard to 
matres lectionis? Where should the vowel go?

Blessings,

Martin

Am Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2005 11:44 schrieb anthony kerr:
> Martin
>
> 1 Sam 3 is a text that I have been looking at recently, vs
> 1-2 will help us.
>
> "in his place" in verse 2
> If we copy this to yudit, and then investigate the
> underlying characters it seems that the holem is bound to
> the Mem and not the waw.
>
> copy paste from the WLC module
> for waw the codes are 05d5
> for the Mem 05de 05b9 0591
>
> from http://www.mechon-mamre.org/c/ct/c08a03.htm
> for waw the codes are [fb4b] 05d5 05b9
> for the Mem 05de 0591
>
> The reason that this problem is not more apparent is that
> with cantillation marks on, there is a character between
> the Mem and the holem, so it seems the holem is then
> rendered correctly with the waw.
>
> But when there is no cantillation mark the characters
> collapse.
>
> What is fb4b?
>
> Is this a problem with the WLC module, KDE, or ?
>
> hope this helps
> anthony
>
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:13 pm, Martin Gruner wrote:
> > Anthony, you are right. But this only happens when vowels
> > are turned on. It could be KDE/QT, it could be the font,
> > but it could also be a mistake in my WLC module (ordering
> > of characters). I am not exactly sure yet. If you could
> > investigate a little, that would be nice.
> >
> > mg
> >
> > > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> > > Von: anthony kerr <anton at jesuscentral.net>
> > > An: bt-devel at crosswire.org
> > > Betreff: [bt-devel] Hebrew text rendering
> > > Datum: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:56:25 +1000
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
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