Denis Jacquerye wrote:
Regarding the superscript q, in some rare cases, it is used to
indicate pharyngealization or a pharyngeal consonant instead of the
Latin letter pharyngeal voiced fricative U+0295 ʕ, the modifier letter
reversed glottal stop U+02C1 ˁ or the modifier letter small reversed
Regarding the superscript q, in some rare cases, it is used to indicate
pharyngealization or a pharyngeal consonant instead of the Latin letter
pharyngeal voiced fricative U+0295 ʕ, the modifier letter reversed glottal
stop U+02C1 ˁ or the modifier letter small reversed glottal stop U+02E4 ˤ.
On 2016-10-07, Oren Watson wrote:
> I scarcely think that a use case was submitted for every one of the
> blackboard bold etc letters in the mathematical set; merely the use of
> blackboard bold for a general purpose of denoting sets such as the
> naturals, reals, complex
Hmm... "filling in Latin alphabet encoding gaps without clear use cases" is
exactly what was done for the blackboard bold letters.
I scarcely think that a use case was submitted for every one of the
blackboard bold etc letters in the mathematical set; merely the use of
blackboard bold for a
On 10/7/2016 11:25 AM, Oren Watson wrote:
Would it be appropriate to submit an omnibus proposal for encoding all
remaining english letters in subscript, small caps, and superscript in
the SMP for the purpose of not arbitrarily constraining the use of
unicode for new linguistic theories and
Would it be appropriate to submit an omnibus proposal for encoding all
remaining english letters in subscript, small caps, and superscript in the
SMP for the purpose of not arbitrarily constraining the use of unicode for
new linguistic theories and ideas, similar to the mathematical characters?
6.10.2016, 19:27, Ken Whistler wrote:
Their functions have been completely overtaken by markup conventions
such as ... and ..., which *are* widely supported
already, even in most email clients, ri^ght out of the b_ox .
They are widely supported, but very widely in a typographically inferior
I meant, petition say the devs of Konsole, iTerm, xterm etc, and other
programs which deal purely in plain text to support 8b and 8c characters
for formatting. Markup doesn't exist everywhere.
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Ken Whistler wrote:
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> On 10/6/2016 9:04 AM,
On 10/6/2016 9:04 AM, Oren Watson wrote:
If this is a real need, why not petition more software to allow the
use of the U+8C partial line up and U+8B partial line down characters
for the this purpose?
Because U+008C and U+008B are relics from the days when control codes
were used in
-- Forwarded message --
From: Oren Watson
Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: Why incomplete subscript/superscript alphabet ?
To: "Jukka K. Korpela"
If this is a real need, why not petition more software to allow the use of
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