[nc] Diacritical: Hebrew: ensure combining vowel accents (Nikud) do not touch characters
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Bug Description
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Hebrew uses base characters to represent consonant sounds; the vowels when needed to guide pronunciation are added as combining accents, known as Nikud ('נִקּוּד'). Ideally all text should use full accents, but there is a general tendency outside of scholarly works to only add accents when /needed/ for disambiguation.
For example, 'send' (shlakh, שְׁלַח) and 'sent' (shalakh, שָׁלַח) would both be written simply as שלח (in a manner perhaps analogous to "missing off" accents when writing continental Latin-based European languages on an English- or American-layout keyboard (writing rôle/passé as role/passe).
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These combining accents should not touch the main Hebrew characters when drawn, and should be clear and visible separately.
A further form of accent/cantillation is used in addition for Biblical texts, to indicate how the text should be voiced when sung/chanted and these should also remain clear.
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
milestone: | none → hebrew |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: uff-diacritical |
summary: |
- Consider Nikud in Hebrew + Diacritical: Hebrew: support Nikud (combining vowel accents) |
summary: |
- Diacritical: Hebrew: support Nikud (combining vowel accents) + Diacritical: Hebrew: ensure combining vowel accents (Nikud) do not touch + characters |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Diacritical: Hebrew: ensure combining vowel accents (Nikud) do not touch - characters + [nc] Diacritical: Hebrew: ensure combining vowel accents (Nikud) do not + touch characters |
Ddorda: please could you provide some URLs to known correctly formatted source texts that would be good for stress testing both the vowel accents, and cantillations/ te`amim.