Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 12/04/2004 20:12, Dora Smith wrote:

> Peter, what are you talking about?   Are you saying that unicode fonts only
> spell the long o sound with a vav, instead of the dot over the consonant?
>
> Yours,
> Dora Smith
> Austin, Texas
> villandra AT austin.rr.com
>  

Not quite. What I am saying is that Unicode does not make a distinction 
between holam male = full holam (with silent vav) and vav haluma = 
consonantal vav with holam (sounded VO or WO). Both are written as vav 
with holam dot above it, but (at least as I was taught) in the former 
the dot is above the right side of vav, and in the latter the dot is 
above the left side. From my examples you will see that many printed 
Bibles make this distinction. Unicode only defines one way of putting a 
holam dot on a vav.

By the way, there is a new draft of the proposal at 
http://qaya.org/academic/hebrew/Holam%20Male.html, with a few extra 
options and a table comparing the options.

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Peter Kirk
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