Re: Avoidance variants

Or is it a markup issue rather than something for plain text?

On 26 March 2015 at 13:30, Mark E. Shoulson <mark_at_kli.org> 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
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