Andrew C. West wrote on 06/20/2003 03:59:10 AM: > I noticed that in Yuan Jiahua's authoritative overview of Chinese dialects, > _Hanyu Fangyan Gaiyao_ (2nd ed., 1980), he uses left-stemmed mirrors of the > ordinary right-stemmed tone marks to indicate tone sandhi, the unmutated tone > having a right stem, immediately followed by the mutated tone with aleft stem
Just so -- these left vs. right stems are distinct for Chinese linguists, which is why I have planned to proposed five left-stemmed tone letters. > (I can send you a scan off-list if you want). The examples he gives include > marks that look identical to U+02EA and U+02EB, as well as many > other left- and > right-stemmed tone marks that are not currently encoded in Unicode. Are these > the subject of your proposal by any chance ? Hard to say without seeing them, but if they are simply contours, then those are already supported in Unicode by means of ligatures of the five already there. If it's something else, go ahead and send me the scan (with bibliographic details, please); if it's just contours, then I've got samples. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
