...Yes
i.e. LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
U+0259 É
Yes, except that it isn't an OI at all, whoever gave it this name was ignorant of the character and went merely on the shape.
U+01A3 Æi.e. LATIN SMALL LETTER OI
I deliberately avoid using Unicode character names because they are misleading, as we have just seen. I don't want people to think they know what the letter is because they have seen its name. If you install Arial Unicode MS or Code2000 you can see the glyph. Or you can use Unibook.
?? dotless i with a hook to the right (possibly U+0269 É
i.e. LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA (please use character names so that we don't always have to open the UnicodeData.txt file in the database).
, but it actually looks more like a small caps L with a descender at theright
hand end)
Isn't it exactly the definition of the lowercase iota? Or do you mean that the hook at the bottom of iota should extend from its current baseline to with a descender, like a mirrored dot-less 'j' ?
Or do you mean really a snigle vertical stroke without a required hook
below,
where in that case it would be a variant of dotless i with a long leg below
the
baseline, so an intermediate between the standard dotless i and the standard
dotless j, and similar in variant formation to the two variants of long-s
with
a long leg below the baseline or a short leg on the baseline.
Your ideas don't match mine at all. As a picture is worth 1000 words, see the attached, from http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/81_folder/81_articles/81_mollanasraddin.html. The letter in question is the one above the M, which must be distinguished from the L and has the same sound as Turkish dotless i. The lower case glyph is a small version of the upper case, with no dot. I'm not sure why there are two I's in this drawing, perhaps one of them should be a J.
This letter looks nothing like U+01A3, which is also visible in the bottom line of the attachment.In my opinion your description looks more like a iota than to a lowercase 'oi' letter (that looks more like an 'o' ligated with a following dotless reversed 'j', or looks more similar to a lowercase 'g' with some fonts like Arial U.MS.)
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