Michael Everson wrote: > Philippe Verdy wrote: > > 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 transcription? > > 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=IntlNiameyK ybd > it can be observed that, of the set of letters used, four of them do > not have capital forms: > > U+0266 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH HOOK > U+027E LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK
I gave these two ones in my message. > U+0251 LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA (Note that the Big Alpha has a glyph often made distinct from an uppercase A, using a rounded top instead of the angular shape, but some writers seem to add a turned breve (or a breve or another diacritic) above a standard A, to make it appear as Alpha and not A. Sometimes the "alpha" is marked with a AE or ae letter (I think it comes from limited character sets, where AE was present but there was no possible distinction for the Latin letter Alpha). I don't know the language in which it is written, so I can't say if they are a fallback convention for printing or a separate orthographic letter. May be an Africanist will reply to this... > U+0273 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH RETROFLEX HOOK I did not list them, but there are other missing capital letters: (outside of glottal stops which do not seem to have case variation, although it may be possible that this is rendred in some African texts for titles): 01AA;LATIN LETTER REVERSED ESH LOOP;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;<??>;;<??>; <??>;LATIN CAPITAL REVERSED ESH LOOP;Lu;0;L;;;;;N;;;01AA;; 01BA;LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH TAIL;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;<??>;;<??>; <??>;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH WITH TAIL;Lu;0;L;;;;;N;;;01BA;; 0271;LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH HOOK;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;LATIN SMALL LETTER M HOOK;<??>;;<??>; <??>;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M WITH HOOK;Lu;0;L;;;;;N;;;0271;; 0289;LATIN SMALL LETTER U BAR;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;<??>;;<??>; <??>;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U BAR;Lu;O;L;;;;;N;;;0289;; 028C;LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;<??>;;<??>; <??>;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED V;Lu;0;L;;;;;N;;;028C;; On the opposite, there seems also to exist x-height bilabial click (i.e. a lowercase version, the encoded one being probably uppercase/noncased)... 0298;LATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK;<???Lu???>;0;L;;;;;N;LATIN LETTER BULLSEYE;;<??>;; <??>;LATIN SMALL LETTER BILABIAL CLICK;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;0298;;0298; And of course there are the three missing letters: U+???? LATIN SMALL LETTER R BAR U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R BAR U+???? LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH HOOK U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH HOOK U+???? LATIN SMALL LETTER KHI (or X WITH HOOK?) U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER KHI (or X WITH HOOK?) And did not check all the letter variants composed with lower dots rather than hooks and bars, but this second set seems complete. __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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