Ken Penner wrote:

> I have been using the Unicode characters U+05AF (HEBREW MARK MASORA
> CIRCLE) and U+05C4 (HEBREW MARK UPPER DOT) to place a circle and dot
> (respectively) above characters that are only partially legible.
> Is this common practise, or is there a preferable way?

In my opinion, it would be preferable to use the less specific U+0307
COMBINING DOT ABOVE and U+030A COMBINING RING ABOVE. Unfortunately,
Unicode Hebrew fonts have almost always a glyph for the former
character, but not for the latter.

Giuseppe

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Giuseppe Regalzi
University of Turin, Italy
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http://purl.org/net/regalzi/
http://www.orientalisti.net/

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