Kent Karlsson wrote on 06/02/2003 02:25:08 PM: > > Utterly wrong. Uppercase vowel symbols (**including �**) have > > been used in Americanist phonetics to indicate voiceless vocoids;
> In such cases it would be a terrible choice to use the EMPTY SET > character > for denoting a linguistic "zero" of any kind, since in print one may not > be able to distinguish one of the vowels from a linguistic "zero". Not at all: both the slashed-zero and slash-circle glyphs are distinct from the O-stroke glyph in many type faces. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
