Glossaries and \libertineGlyph and \makebox

Question

I am having troubles using the Glossaries Package with some self-built hebrew characters using \libertineGlyph and \makebox. An entry looks like this:

\newglossaryentry{{ע\makebox(-1,8)[r]{\libertineGlyph{uni02DC}}ה}}{name={\RL{{ע\makebox(-1,8)[r]{\libertineGlyph{uni02DC}}ה}},description={‘Peace be with her’ oleho hascholaum}}}

Example:

 \documentclass[10pt,a5paper,twoside]{scrbook}
    \usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}

    \usepackage[bmargin=2.25cm]{geometry}

     \usepackage{polyglossia, xunicode}

    \usepackage{scrpage2}
    \pagestyle{scrheadings}
    \clearscrheadfoot

    \ihead{\headmark}


    \ohead{\pagemark}
    \setheadsepline{0.4pt}
    \setkomafont{pageheadfoot}{\normalfont\normalcolor\small}\setkomafont{pagenumber}{\normalfont}


    \addtokomafont{pagehead}{\normalfont}


    \setkomafont{disposition}{\normalcolor\bfseries} 

    \clubpenalty=10000
    \widowpenalty=10000

    \usepackage{color}
    \usepackage{multicol,multirow, bigdelim} %%deleted times


    %%%FONTS AND LANGUAGES

    \usepackage{fontspec}

    \usepackage{libertine}
    \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine}
    \setmainlanguage{german}
    \setotherlanguage{hebrew}
    \newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Script=Hebrew]{Ezra SIL}


    \usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
    \usepackage[series={A,B,C}]{reledmac}
    \usepackage{reledpar}

    \setgoalfraction{0.85}


    \lineation{section}
    \linenummargin{right}
    %\setRlineflag{}



    \linenumincrement*{5}
    \firstlinenum*{0} 
    \maxchunks{10000}


    %START GLOSSAR%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    \usepackage[xindy]{glossaries}
    \makeglossaries
    \input{../glossaries.tex}
    \setglossarystyle{tree}


    %% Glossary Entry
    \newglossaryentry{glosse1}{name={\RL{{ע\makebox(-1,8)[r]{\libertineGlyph{uni02DC}}ה}},description={‘Peace be with her’ oleho hascholaum}}}

    %END GLOSSAR%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



\usepackage{metalogo,hyperref} 

    \Xendbeforepagenumber{S.\,}
    \Xendafterpagenumber{:\,}
    \Xendlineprefixsingle{Z.\,}


    \renewcommand{\thefootnoteA}{\fnsymbol{footnoteA}}

    \newcommand\einzugjid{\hangindent=5mm\hangafter=1}

    \newcommand\speaker[1]{\noindent{#1} \einzugjid
    }

    \newcommand\einzug{\hangindent=5mm\hangafter=1}

    \newcommand\speakerd[1]{\noindent
    {\textsc{#1}} \einzug
    }

    \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}




    \begin{document}



    \begin{pages}
    \begin{Leftside}\begin{hebrew}
     \setRTL
     \beginnumbering

      \pstart     {\RL{\speaker{יוקב.}
       געלטע דאָס גִיט אָבער לאָסטיג
       \edgls{האנאָרים}
    ?}}  \pend

    \pstart  {\RL{\speaker{בויער.}
      יאָ, דאָס גלעב אייך. הויא פערדיענסט דוא אַהך ניט פֵֿיעל. }}
     \pend

     \pstart   {\RL{\speaker{יוקב.}
        פֿערדיענט אייכס דאָך אין אַה פֿירטעל יאָהר, וואָהס מייכ‘ס הויא     \edgls{glosse1}  און מאָר קאָסט.
    \textit{)}\textit{זייפצט}.\textit{(}
    }} \pend



     \endnumbering
    \end{hebrew}
    \end{Leftside}


    \begin{Rightside}

    \beginnumbering



     \pstart  \speakerd{Person1.} {Gell}, Text…?  \pend

    \pstart   \speakerd{Person 2.} Text…  \pend

    \pstart    \speakerd{Person1.} Text…. \textit{(Seufzt.)} \pend


    \endnumbering

    \end{Rightside}


    \end{pages}
    \Pages
    \printnoidxglossaries
    \end{document}

Answer 1

Your code

\newglossaryentry{{ע\makebox(-1,8)[r]{\libertineGlyph{uni02DC}}ה}}{name={\RL{{ע\makebox(-1,8)[r]{\libertineGlyph{uni02DC}}ה}},description={‘Peace be with her’ oleho hascholaum}}}

has a serious problem. The first argument is a label. It's never typeset but is used as a reference (much like \ref and \cite), so there should never be any special characters in the label. With XeLaTeX, it's possible to use extended characters (as long as they're not active). So strip all markup from the first argument:

\newglossaryentry{עה}{name={ע\makebox(-1,8)[r]{\libertineGlyph{uni02DC}}ה},
 description={‘Peace be with her’ oleho hascholaum}}

xindy automatically strips commands and braces, so \makebox(-1,8)[r]{\libertineGlyph{uni02DC}} will end up as (-1,8)[r]uni02DC, which is going to confuse the sorting. It's better to use the sort key to set an appropriate sort value that xindy can understand. For example:

\newglossaryentry{עה}{name={ע\makebox(-1,8)[r]{\libertineGlyph{uni02DC}}ה},
 sort={ע˜ה},
 description={‘Peace be with her’ oleho hascholaum}}

or just

\newglossaryentry{עה}{name={ע\makebox(-1,8)[r]{\libertineGlyph{uni02DC}}ה},
 sort={עה},
 description={‘Peace be with her’ oleho hascholaum}}

Following on from my answer to your previous question, here's a MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}

\usepackage{libertine}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O}

\setmainlanguage{german}
\setotherlanguage{hebrew}
\newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Script=Hebrew]{Keter YG}

\usepackage[xindy={language=hebrew,glsnumbers=false},nosuper,nolong]{glossaries}

\makeglossaries

\newglossarystyle{germanhebrew}
{% base it on the tree style:
  \setglossarystyle{tree}%
  % switch to german
  \renewenvironment{theglossary}%
    {\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}%
     \setlength{\parskip}{0pt plus 0.3pt}%
     \begin{german}
    }%
    {\end{german}}%
  \renewcommand{\glossentry}[2]{%
    \hangindent0pt\relax
    \parindent0pt\relax
    \glsentryitem{##1}\glstreenamefmt{\glstarget{##1}{%
      \texthebrew{\glossentryname{##1}}}}%
    \ifglshassymbol{##1}{\space(\glossentrysymbol{##1})}{}%
    \glstreepredesc\glossentrydesc{##1}\glspostdescription\space##2\par
  }%
}

\newglossaryentry{עה}{name={ע\makebox(-1,8)[r]{\libertineGlyph{uni02DC}}ה},
 sort={עה},
 description={‘Peace be with her’ oleho hascholaum}}

\begin{document}
Deutsche

\begin{hebrew}
עִברִית

\gls{עה}
\end{hebrew}

\printglossary[style=germanhebrew]

\end{document}