At 14:54 -0800 2004-01-02, Peter Kirk wrote:
On 02/01/2004 12:19, D. Starner wrote:
I'm working with Distributed Proofreaders to produce some minimal
Unicode character selectors. Right now I'm working on the Latin
character selectors. Since we soley provide material for Project
Gutenberg, we usually only deal with characters pre-1923. After
stripping composable accents, which characters in the Latin blocks
only appeared after that date? Can I assume that both the Pan-Turkic
Latin orthography and the Pan-Nigerian alphabet postdate that?
You are probably safe with the Pan-Turkic Latin alphabet. It seems
that this was adopted followng the First Turkology Congress, held in
Baku in 1926, see
http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/81_folder/81_articles/81_turkology_congress.html.
You will find Turkic letters in that alphabet which predate that congress.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
