Peculiar vowel sign combination in (e.g.) Luke 22:27

[DavidHaslam]

The verse reads:

\v 27 ਕਿਉਂਕਿ ਵੱਡਾ ਕੌਣ ਹੈ, ਉਹ ਜਿਹੜਾ ਖਾਣ ਬੈਠਦਾ ਹੈ ਯਾ ਉਹ ਜਿਹੜਾ ਟਹਿਲ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ ? ਭਲਾ, ਉਹ ਨਹੀਂ ਜਿਹੜਾ ਖਾਣ ਨੂੰ ਬੈਠਦਾ ਹੈ ? ਪਰ ਮੈਂ ਤੁਹਾਡੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਟਹਿੁਲੂਏ ਵਰਗਾ ਹਾਂ |

The word ਟਹਿੁਲੂਏ contains GURMUKHI VOWEL SIGNS I and U consecutively.

This is a peculiar vowel sign combination in the Gurmukhi script.
I suspect second of these vowel signs is a typo.

The word ਟਹਿਲੂਏ (without the U) means servants.

[DavidHaslam]

This issue was discovered by a regexp search for the pattern [\x{0A3E}-\x{0A4C}]{2,}
i.e. In the concatenated USFM file for the whole Bible.
This gave 43 hits, most of which were double (or triple) instances of the same vowel sign.
Most (perhaps all) of those instances have been reported in earlier issues.

[beniza]

Thank you David for sharing the regexp pattern to find repeated vowel marks. It looks to me the word ਟਹਿਲੂਏ is the right one as it returns a number of result in a google search, while the first one didn't return any.

[DavidHaslam]

It's important to fix all the similar occurrences of invalid vowel [or other] sign combinations.

My analysis of counted glyphs is a further way of looking for these problems.

See also issue #49

[DeepaRani3012]

Corrected

[DavidHaslam]

Following Joshy's merge #81 earlier today, there are still 30 matches to the regexp [\x{0A3E}-\x{0A4C}]{2,}

i.e. The recent fixes have reduced the number by 13 so far, equivalent to 30% of the previous total 43.

Still some way to go, friends.

[DavidHaslam]

I have just edited the Subject to make it clear that Luke 22:27 was but one example of this type of anomaly.

[DavidHaslam]

See my recent comments in issue #83 to help you find all the locations.

[simaksonia417]

Luke 22:27 corrected, remaining to be corrected