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Funny holem problem with Acc and SIL keyboard


Λύχνις Δαν

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Hi ya,

 

  In chasing down some stuff in https://www.accordancebible.com/forums/topic/28261-searching-for-words-with-specific-letters/ I ran into an issue with the holem over the א.When typing this on the SIL mapping in Accordance the holem appears over the top right of the א not the top left as you would expect. Curiously Accordance appears to know the difference as it instead of accepting the exact inflected form pops up a list to choose the correct form from. It would seem it's inserting a different code point. Oddly if I use other characters I get the holem in the right place. In addition if I type it here in Firefox I also get the right positioning. So using a large font size for clarity you can see below I can type this here correctly:

 

אֹ

 

but in Accordance the same keystrokes on the same keyboard mapping get :

 

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This happens on both Mac and Windows. I'm using High Sierra on Mac and Windows 10 and Acc 13.0.4 on both.

 

Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug here ?

 

Thx

D

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This happens in most word processors I know of as well. I usually can never get the vowels to line up right

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Actually it's fine in LibreOffice. It seems this is peculiar to Acc.

 

Thx

D

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Hey דניאל,


 


It works in Word and Mellel in OSX, and in Classical Text Editor and Nota Bene in Windows. I'm using the Ezra SIL font.


 


Regards,


 


Michel


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Hey Michel, right I don't think the word processors are all that bad on this one it seems. Have you tried in Acc in the search box ? I actually don't know what display font is used in the search box. That said, as I mentioned before it looks like Acc's actually using a different code. If I cut and paste a correct form אֹת from somewhere into the search box it works. And the computer cannot see the glyphs. It just sees the codepoints. So I suspect there is an actually character encoding related issue here. Oh I have an idea for a test.

 

Tx

D

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I just checked for you in OSX, in the Go to box in a construct search, and whether I type it in Accordance or paste it from Word, the holem is on the top right arm.


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Thanx. I just did the same from LibreOffice with the same result. Hmmm..... I also pasted it from the incorrect form in Acc and this rendered interestingly in LO. It looks as if the holem rendered over a space to the right of the aleph. Ah indeed it is.

 

Ok so pasted into LO in the middle of a line so the margin doesn't get in the way I see:

 

 

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So I think what's happening is that the aleph and the combining char are being put in the wrong way around.

 

Thx

D

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