John Cowan
Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:32:35 -0700
"Valeriy E. Ushakov" wrote: > Unicode lacks support for "letter titlo" (i.e. titlo with a letter) > used quite productively in OCS (in Russia at least), so you can't use > Unicode to write "The Lord" (with "slovo-titlo") or "The Gospel" (with > "glagol-titlo"). Not so. U+0483 is COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO, which may be placed after any letter to generate a letter-titlo. There is also, I'm not sure why, the characters U+047C/D, CYRILLIC SMALL/CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA WITH TITLO, though they are not canonically equivalent to U+0460/1, CYRILLIC SMALL/CAPITAL OMEGA followed by a COMBINING TITLO. Anybody know why not, and why this solitary titlo character is present in the first place? What is genuinely missing is IOTIFIED A. Because LITTLE YUS and IOTIFIED A fell together in Russian as /ja/, Peter eliminated the latter and adopted a modified form of LITTLE YUS, now CYRILLIC LETTER YA. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein