05-29-2022, 02:18 PM | #1 |
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What character is this?
Hello, I'm making an ePub and I don't know what character the letter in apex in this image is.
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05-29-2022, 03:29 PM | #2 |
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Looks close to a superscripted Georgian Letter Man character ( მ 0x10DB ). Ghod alone knows what it actually is.
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05-29-2022, 03:51 PM | #3 |
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It looks to me like text from an OCR that recognized the other letters in the word and just used the original image of the character for one it didn’t recognize. In that case it might be the letter “d”.
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05-30-2022, 12:51 PM | #4 |
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It's almost the symbol of the year
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2202 Whether or not that's what was intended, that's a different matter. |
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05-31-2022, 01:26 PM | #6 |
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I’d agree with jhowell’s assessment as to the cause… perhaps do a spelling check of the ePub and see what words show up that are similar to “bar_sman”
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If you give more context (like the sentence/paragraph), maybe we could guess a bit better. Does it appear anywhere else in the book? What language is the book? Quote:
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If you're working on a mathematical text, that may be possible. Last edited by Tex2002ans; 06-06-2022 at 06:08 PM. |
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06-07-2022, 03:58 AM | #8 |
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Could it be a mis-OCR’d “dh” making the word bardhman?
Edit: do you have the original to compare with? |
06-13-2022, 10:26 AM | #9 |
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Thank you everyone. I checked again and it's probably not an error. See attachment for more context. Your suggestions seem fine with me anyway.
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06-13-2022, 10:37 AM | #10 |
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Based on that text it looks to me like the word should be "baresman".
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06-13-2022, 11:51 AM | #11 |
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06-13-2022, 03:36 PM | #12 |
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See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barsom (and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avestan_phonology for the difference between e and ə, my guess)
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06-13-2022, 04:03 PM | #13 | |||
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They may have copied/pasted it from somewhere else, and the "upside-down 'e'" character got botched. The Unicode character is:
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Side Note: If you're learning about language in that area of the world, you may be interested in this podcast episode: Last edited by Tex2002ans; 06-13-2022 at 04:12 PM. |
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06-13-2022, 04:58 PM | #14 |
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Some fonts also have a different-looking 'ᵊ' that looks like a partial differential, especially when they're in italic: |
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