> My first answer to my correspondent was "just use Roman h."
That would be my suggestion, too. It is available now -- it matches current practice, and requires no further action. > A program that was sorting text, or trying to determine what script > a word was written in, would get confused by hε̄γεμο̄ν. As for sorting -- if you are sorting epigraphical Greek, you likely need customized tables, anyway. Just add "h" and treat it appropriately. As for determination of script, you need to ask yourself, for what purpose. If this is something like regular expression matching, then again, it doesn't matter so much -- you would just attempt to match against strings containing letters of the Greek script + "h", and you'd get what you expect. > Would this justify a proposal for "Greek small letter epigraphical h"? I don't think so. Not unless you can demonstrate that this really is a distinct character, as opposed to a special usage of the already existing Latin "h" -- which is what it seems to be. --Ken > > David
