Unicode Characters of Interest to Bible Scholars
The major Unicode character blocks of interest to bible scholars include: Combining Diacritical Marks Greek and Coptic (Coptic has its own range in the next Unicode update) Hebrew Greek Extended Scroll down for a test page for some of the more obscure Unicode characters from other character blocks of interest to bible scholars, including the newly approved GNT Unicode Sigla. The Cardo font and the New Athena font are probably the easiest to obtain that currently has the range of character forms.
| Test | Hex | Unique Character Name |
| ⸀ | U+2E00 | RIGHT ANGLE SUBSTITUTION MARKER |
| ⸁ | U+2E01 | RIGHT ANGLE DOTTED SUBSTITUTION MARKER |
| ⸂ | U+2E02 | LEFT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET |
| ⸃ | U+2E03 | RIGHT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET |
| ⸄ | U+2E04 | LEFT DOTTED SUBSTITUTION BRACKET |
| ⸅ | U+2E05 | RIGHT DOTTED SUBSTITUTION BRACKET |
| ⸆ | U+2E06 | RAISED INTERPOLATION MARKER |
| ⸇ | U+2E07 | RAISED DOTTED INTERPOLATION MARKER |
| ⸈ | U+2E08 | DOTTED TRANSPOSITION MARKER |
| ⸉ | U+2E09 | LEFT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET |
| ⸊ | U+2E0A | RIGHT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET |
| ⸋ | U+2E0B | RAISED SQUARE |
| ⸌ | U+2E0C | LEFT RAISED OMISSION BRACKET |
| ⸍ | U+2E0D | RIGHT RAISED OMISSION BRACKET |
| ⸎ | U+2E0E | EDITORIAL CORONIS |
| ⸏ | U+2E0F | PARAGRAPHOS |
| ⸐ | U+2E10 | FORKED PARAGRAPHOS |
| ⸑ | U+2E11 | REVERSED FORKED PARAGRAPHOS |
| ⸒ | U+2E12 | HYPODIASTOLE |
| ⸓ | U+2E13 | DOTTED OBELOS |
| ⸔ | U+2E14 | DOWNWARDS ANCORA |
| ⸕ | U+2E15 | UPWARDS ANCORA |
| ⸖ | U+2E16 | DOTTED RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE |
| ⸗ | U+2E17 | DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN |
| ℵ | U+2135 | ALEF SYMBOL for Sinaiticus |
| These last few symbols are from the Plane 1 range. Cardo contains these, but for an ambitious font for more code points in this obscure plain than you can imagine, try the Code2001 font.) | ||
| 𝑙 | U+1D459 | MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL L for lectionary MS |
| 𝔖 | U+1D516 | MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR CAPITAL S for Septuagint |
| 𝔐 | U+1D510 | MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR CAPITAL M for majority text |
| 𝔓 | U+1D513 | MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR CAPITAL P for papyri |
| 𝔭 | U+1D52D | MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR SMALL P for a small letter papyri |
2 comments:
Just wanted to say that I see rectangles in your headline for the accented letters (Windows XP):
φρονεῖς ἑτέρως
So much for Unicode ...
:-)
Best wishes
Wieland
Hi Wieland,
Any Macintosh since 10.2 displays Greek such as in the title right out of the box. Even the copy and paste you made into the comment renders the extended Greek characters perfectly.
You simply need to know what switch to flip in your browser to allow font substitution. I'll check into whether my font-typface choices stymie Unicode for Windows users. I can't help directly, as I don't have a Windows box here.
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