What I am doing is making a initial categorization based upon information I have ready to hand, then asking for other feedback. I have found that the best way to get feedback is to do a first cut -- that way people can concentrate on the more exceptional cases.
I am, sadly, not omniscient, and do not know the usage of all of these characters, otherwise I would not have needed to ask for feedback. Mark __________ http://www.macchiato.com ◄ “Eppur si muove” ► ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 04:04 Subject: Re: Latin vowels? > At 00:32 -0400 2002-09-09, John Cowan wrote: > >Mark Davis scripsit: > > > >> If someone familiar with any of the weirder creatures in the Unicode > >> Latin Zoo could quickly scan the list over to see if there are any > >> errors, I'd appreciate it. > > > >The following are not vowels. > >The so-called OI is really a velar fricative; the OU-ligature is > >historically so, but functions as [w] in the languages where it is used. > > > >U+01A2 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OI > >U+01A3 # LATIN SMALL LETTER OI > > This is not a vowel. It is a GHA, and its name is wrong. What are you > doing Mark basing work like this on the names..... ;-) > -- > Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com >
