Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well now b-dash is used in Germanic linguistics. I think some Old > Saxon texts use b-dash. It would occur intervocalically, I think, but > in titles it might have a capital form. I'll see if I can find > something about that.
I think it's safe to assume that all alphabetic, certainly all Latin, characters that *could* have both a capital and a small form *need* to have both, because of the possible use in titles. Your research into Komi Cyrillic and Lakota long-N proved that. The obvious exception would be IPA characters -- but even then, as soon as an IPA letter migrates to an accepted orthography in, say, Africa, it needs an uppercase form. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
