Hello, Please forgive me if this question has been raised before: I am a newbie on this list.
I am looking into the Unicode standard for the encoding of Classical Greek. While both the Greek and the Greek Extended ranges of the current Unicode Standard seem to cover most of the essentials, it looks strange to me that there some Greek extended glyphs have not been defined. They are: 1) GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH PSILI [code point U+1F58 is "reserved"] 2) GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH PSILI AND VARIA [code point U+1F5A is "reserved"] 3) GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH PSILI AND OXIA [code point U+1F5C is "reserved"] 4) GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI [code point U+1F5E is "reserved"] I don't know what "reserved" means in this context, BTW. Why have these glyphs been left out--does anybody know? They must be rare, but they may--and one at least does--occur in the Aeolic dialect, which exhibits the phenomenon of psilosis (loss of aspiration at the beginning of words). I have long felt uneasy about the absence of these glyphs in the Unicode Standard, but yesterday I traced the source of my unease: No. 3 above occurs in Alcaeus, fr. 129 Voigt, l. 13 in the name "Urraon". Instances of capital letters 1, 2 and 4 may not be attested in print AFAIK, but there is nothing to suggest that some new papyrus finds may not make the use of these glyphs necessary in the future. Even if no new finds come to light: one may want to code the Aeolic preposition "Upa" (Attic "Hupo") with a capital initial, for instance (1). Or "Us" "swine" (Attic "Hus") (4). Only (2) will be extremely rare, I guess; at least I can't think of an example right now. Am I right in thinking that this merits writing up a proposal to add these glyphs to the Unicode standard? I am most interested to hear the thoughts of the wise on this list. And if the answer is "Yes", I would appreciate some help in filling out the proposal form from someone experienced in these matters (I did check the examples available on the 'Net, but I feel a bit uncomfortable going "solo"). Greetings from Leiden, Pim Rietbroek W.P.J. Rietbroek Telephone: +31-71-522-1510 Houtmarkt 29 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2312 PZ Leiden Office: Brill Academic Publishers The Netherlands Office email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page at http://www.euronet.nl/~pimr/
