John Cowan asked: > Where does this strange beast come from?
Semitic transliteration practice, if I recall correctly. > Its name is LATIN SMALL LETTER > A WITH RIGHT HALF RING, and the right half ring is indeed above the "a". > We don't have a RIGHT HALF RING ABOVE combining mark, so it only gets a > compatibility decomposition. It's not really an *above* diacritic, but a little 02BE hamza half ring sitting at the upper right shoulder. The Unicode 3.0 glyph looks odd to me -- the Unicode 2.0 glyph made more sense. It's more akin to U+0149 as an oddball addition to the standard. --Ken > Who would need a lower-case letter with a unique diacritic, and no upper-case > equivalent? The U+1Exx block is "random junk inherited from 10646 DIS 1", > Does anyone understand it?
