[sword-devel] GlobalOptionFilter=UTF8GreekAccents and non-Greek modules

[David Haslam]

As yet, nobody has given me any explanation of why the *right single
quotation mark* U+2019 is treated as a Greek Accent that gets removed when
this filter is used.

A quotation mark is not a Greek diacritic. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_diacritics

My hunch is that because in some fonts it looks identical in shape and
position to a Greek psili, it has been wrongly classified as a Greek accent
by the programmer that designed the filter.

The Greek psili is normally positioned above small letters, and to the
top-left of large letters, though it's much closer to these than would be
the quotation mark.

Moreover, as a combining character, U+1FBF GREEK PSILI is keyed AFTER the
letter it combines with.

Who knows? Maybe there are some badly constructed modules with *Lang=grc*
that actually used the wrong codepoint? Even if this were the case, it must
surely be a mistake to filter these out.


Best regards,


David





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