[sword-devel] The Lexham English Bible (module LEB)

[Jonathan Morgan]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:40 PM, David Haslam <d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk>wrote:

>
> Today I installed the new module LEB, and began to examine it.
>
> Idioms in the OSIS XML download are tagged like this: (Second part of
> Col.4.18)
>
> Remember my <seg type="x-idiom">˻imprisonment˼</seg><note>Literally
> “bonds”</note>.
>
> Just inside the <seg ... > </seg> markers, the two Unicode characters are
> U+20FB MODIFIER LETTER BEGIN LOW TONE
> U+20FC MODIFIER LETTER END LOW TONE
>
> These two codepoints are not supported by some Unicode fonts.
> Bible Desktop displays these as blank rectangles, with Arial Unicode MS
> font
> selected in Options.
>
> Please check how other front-end applications cope with this novelty.
> I think it's new to us in CrossWire - that's the reason for my reporting
> this observation.
>

Works fine in BPBible on Windows with Arial (I think our default font) or
Times New Roman.  Does not work with Verdana, which is *my* default font
because of its readability.

Jon
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