On 2003.07.07, 00:25, Peter Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe originally U+044B (cyrillic "y", "yery") was two separate > letters,
It sure it (though I should provide some references to back this up? Hm, later...) > but it is certainly considered and used as one letter in Cyrillic > languages today. Encoding it as two letters would be about as > sensible as insisting that w should be encoded as two u's or that i > should be encoded as dotless i plus combining dot. Well, that was precisely my point when asking how much dutch "ij" (as in "rijk", not as in "bijectie") is an analogous case. > Note that "yery" is also sometimes written with an acute accent > centred over the two elements, to indicate stress. Indeed, in (at least, Russian) dictionaries and schooll books. It can also recieve an umlaut in Maryan (precomposed as U+04F9), again center over the enseble of both elements. -- ____. Ant�nio MARTINS-Tuv�lkin | ()| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |####| R. Laureano de Oliveira, 64 r/c esq. | PT-1885-050 MOSCAVIDE (LRS) N�o me invejo de quem tem | +351 934 821 700 carros, parelhas e montes | http://www.tuvalkin.web.pt/bandeira/ s� me invejo de quem bebe | http://pagina.de/bandeiras/ a �gua em todas as fontes |
