Some letters used in Latin transcription of Pan-Sahelian scripts are still missing in Unicode: Is there a proposal to include them, as they are needed for case folding and capital transcrtiption?
I can identify immediately these two ones that would be needed on Pan-Sahelian keyboards:
U+027E LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK
U+0266 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH HOOK U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH HOOK
Looking at the International Niamey keyboard layout given at http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=IntlNiameyKybd it can be observed that, of the set of letters used, four of them do not have capital forms:
U+0251 LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA U+0266 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH HOOK U+0273 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH RETROFLEX HOOK U+027E LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK
In addition, but perhaps problematic, is the use in Niamey orthography of
U+02C0 MODIFIER LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
which may also case in principle in Africanist use. On this list we have discussed the relation of
U+0294 LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
with an x-height *LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP used in Athapascan.
What shall we do? Research seems required. ;-)
Referring to http://www.bisharat.net/Documents/Niamey78annex.htm we find
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH STROKE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH UPPER HOOK (not the Germanic one) LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH UPPER HOOK (not the Germanic one)
And we find a T-with-stroke that corresponds to U+01AE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH HOOK and should be considered a glyph variant. Note the glyph variant of U+01A9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
