Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-05-16 Thread Denis Jacquerye
How about Ḝ U+1E1C, ḝ U+1E1D, Ṏ U+1E4E, ṏ U+1E4F, Ṥ U+1E64, ṥ U+1E65, Ṧ U+1E66, ṧ U+1E67 ? Which transliteration systems are they from? -- Denis Moyogo Jacquerye African Network for Localisation http://www.africanlocalisation.net/ Nkótá ya Kongó míbalé --- http://info-langues-congo.1sd.org/

Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-05-16 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Denis Jacquerye moy...@gmail.com wrote: How about Ḝ U+1E1C, ḝ U+1E1D, Ṏ U+1E4E, ṏ U+1E4F, Ṥ U+1E64, ṥ U+1E65, Ṧ U+1E66, ṧ U+1E67 ? Which transliteration systems are they from? Ḁ U+1E00 and ḁ U+1E01 are also a mystery. -- Denis Moyogo Jacquerye

Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-05-16 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Denis Jacquerye moy...@gmail.com wrote: How about Ḝ U+1E1C, ḝ U+1E1D, Ṏ U+1E4E, ṏ U+1E4F, Ṥ U+1E64, ṥ U+1E65, Ṧ U+1E66, ṧ U+1E67 ? Which transliteration systems are they from? Ḁ U+1E00 and ḁ U+1E01 are also a mystery. Aren't they for minority languages in

Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-05-16 Thread Philippe Verdy
See also the use of letter a with dot below in VISCII: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VISCII

Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-05-16 Thread Philippe Verdy
2012/5/16 Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr: See also the use of letter a with dot below in VISCII: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VISCII Sorry, I confused the dot below with the ring below (due to display font size). The ring below is used in IPA but only under consonnants to make them

Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-05-16 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2012-05-16, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: The ring below is used in IPA but only under consonnants to make them voiceless. I don't know its usage under a vowel. Err, it makes them voiceless. E.g., in Japanese, Satsuki is [satsɯ̥ki]. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable

Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-04-19 Thread Benjamin M Scarborough
On 2012.04.16 12:05 PM, Ken Whistler wrote: The first key document is: WG2 N754, Review of repertoire, by Masami Hasegawa, dated September 1991. (Mark Davis and I assisted Hasegawa-san in pulling together the lists in this document.) That document lists *all* of the Latin composite letter

Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-04-19 Thread Michael Everson
On 19 Apr 2012, at 07:23, Benjamin M Scarborough wrote: On 2012.04.16 12:05 PM, Ken Whistler wrote: The first key document is: WG2 N754, Review of repertoire, by Masami Hasegawa, dated September 1991. (Mark Davis and I assisted Hasegawa-san in pulling together the lists in this document.)

Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-04-16 Thread Ken Whistler
On 4/15/2012 10:04 PM, Asmus Freytag wrote: The 1E00 and 1F00 blocks were populated, in Unicode 1.1 by rejects from Unicode 1.0 that were re-admitted as part of the merger with ISO/IEC 10646. If you have anyone with access to the early (paper only) meeting documents of WG2, you might, just

Origins of ẘ

2012-04-15 Thread David Starner
At Wiktionary, we're looking at ẘ (U+1E98) and we can't figure out where it came from. It's from Unicode 1.1, which makes it hard to look up discussion on adding it, and the characters around it don't seem to give clues to its origin. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.

Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-04-15 Thread Rick McGowan
At Wiktionary, we're looking at ẘ (U+1E98) and we can't figure out where it came from. Good catch. It's obviously another stowaway... Just throw it in the brig until we can get around to deporting it.

Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-04-15 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Rick McGowan r...@unicode.org wrote: Good catch. It's obviously another stowaway... Just throw it in the brig until we can get around to deporting it. ẘoẘ, hoẘ many more stoẘaẘays do ẘe haẘe? I remember this Asterix story (Asterix and the Vikings?) where there

Re: Origins of ẘ

2012-04-15 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 4/15/2012 7:30 PM, Rick McGowan wrote: At Wiktionary, we're looking at ẘ (U+1E98) and we can't figure out where it came from. Good catch. It's obviously another stowaway... Just throw it in the brig until we can get around to deporting it. The 1E00 and 1F00 blocks were populated, in