On 30 Dec 2017, at 18:59, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> A defining characteristic of the 1982 African Reference Alphabet was that it
> was lowercase-only. An uppercase form would be an invention with no basis in
> history or usage.
Which is why it failed. Everybody who used anything like it o
Philippe Verdy wrote:
Isn't it a rounded variant of Latin letter n ? Then it could exist
also in uppercase form (like "n" and "N")
A defining characteristic of the 1982 African Reference Alphabet was
that it was lowercase-only. An uppercase form would be an invention with
no basis in history
David Starner wrote:
"The letter is not included in any current spelling and is not
included in Unicode." Should it be?
Did anyone ever use the 1982 alphabet, other than Mann and Dalby?
If not, I wonder if this letter is a bit like the "proposed new
punctuation marks" that show up in proposa
ot; would we written with it as "el Nino" (without using the encoded tilde symbol in the ugly "el Nin~o",
but with a normal letter), or capitalized as "EL NINO" (instead of the ugly "EL NIN~O").
I don't think that "LINEARIZED TILDE" is the cor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_reference_alphabet says "The 1982
revision of the alphabet was made by Michael Mann and David Dalby, who had
attended the Niamey conference. It has 60 letters; some are quite different
from the 1978 version." and offers the linearized tilde, a tild
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