Or is it a markup issue rather than something for plain text?
On 26 March 2015 at 13:30, Mark E. Shoulson <[email protected]> wrote: > So, not much in the way of discussion regarding the TETRAGRAMMATON issue > I raised the other week. OK; someone'll eventually get to it I guess. > > Another thing I was thinking about, while toying with Hebrew fonts. > Often, letters are substituted in _nomina sacra_ in order to avoid writing > a holy name, much as the various symbols for the tetragrammaton are used. > And indeed, sometimes they're used in that name too, as I mentioned, usages > like ידוד or ידוה and so on. There's an example in the paper that shows > אלדים instead of אלהים. Much more common today would be אלקים and in fact > people frequently even pronounce it that way (when it refers to big-G God, > in non-sacred contexts. But for little-g gods, the same word is pronounced > without the avoidance, because it isn't holy. It's weird.) > > I wonder if it makes sense maybe to encode not a codepoint, but a variant > sequence(s) to represent this sort of "defaced" or "altered" letter HEH. > It's still a HEH, it just looks like another letter, right? (QOF or DALET > or occasionally HET) That would keep some consistency to the spelling. On > the other hand, the spelling with a QOF is already well entrenched in texts > all over the internet. But maybe it isn't right. And what about the use > of ה׳ or ד׳ for the tetragrammaton? Are they both HEHs, one "altered", or > is one really a DALET? Any thoughts? > > (and seriously, what to do about all those tetragrammaton symbols?) > > ~mark > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > > -- Andrew Cunningham Project Manager, Research and Development (Social and Digital Inclusion) Public Libraries and Community Engagement State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia Ph: +61-3-8664-7430 Mobile: 0459 806 589 Email: [email protected] [email protected] http://www.openroad.net.au/ http://www.mylanguage.gov.au/ http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/
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