Re: identifying greek characters in an old book

From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Thu Oct 27 2005 - 19:49:28 CST

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suzanne mccarthy wrote:

> More recent printed editions of the Textus Receptus (Erasmus) do not use
> any ligatures at all including U+03D7 : GREEK KAI SYMBOL. Would it
> not be more authentic not to use this codepoint in the Lord's Prayer as
> it could obscure the fact that many other unencoded ligatures are also
> present?

Yes. I would only use U+03D7 in modern Greek text, where it might occur as an ampersand.
In other cases, I would rely on smart font glyph substitution and document mark-up for
ligature formation.

John Hudson

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