These are already representable as sequences of characters. See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/where/
Mark ----- http://www.macchiato.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pim Rietbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Pim Rietbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 19:37 Subject: Greek Extended: question: missing glyphs? > 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/ > > >
