[Biblical-languages] U+ assignment for LXX sigla in BHS?
Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
Wed May 28 22:05:39 EDT 2003
The only font I know which has glyphs for U+1D516 : MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR
CAPITAL S and U+1D57E : MATHEMATICAL BOLD FRAKTUR CAPITAL S is Code2001.
Unfortunately both these glyphs are very ordinary capital S's, probably
copied from Code2000. Only a few of the Code2001 Fraktur letters are
anything like true Fraktur.
Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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> Subject: [Biblical-languages] U+ assignment for LXX sigla in BHS?
>
> What is the appropriate Unicode assignment for the LXX sigla in BHS (&
> elsewhere)--the Black-Letter Capital S? (see BHS, Sigla, p. XLV)
>
> There are several Black-Letter characters listed in the "Letterlike
> Symbols"
> range, but not S.
>
> There is also a note in the online Unicode NamesList re. "Fraktur
> symbols...
> This style is sometimes known as black-letter." There is a MATHEMATICAL
> BOLD
> FRAKTUR CAPITAL S, but in the code charts it looks nothing like the
> Black-Letter capital S in BHS. Is this just a glyph variation? Or is there
> a
> better slot for this?
>
> And in what font might I find such a glyph? I find nothing in Gentium,
> Palatino Linotype, Cardo, Times New Roman, Titus Cyberbit Basic, Lucida
> Unicode, or even Arial Unicode.
>
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