----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 12:48 AM Subject: Re: unicode Digest V4 #3
> Philippe Verdy wrote: > > > I maintain that if you remove the glyph shown for latin letter oi > > (considered only as informative and not mandatory in any of its aspects), > > and just keep its normative name, then many people will think that the > > encoded character really represents a letter named or pronounced "oi". > Which > > is completely wrong in our case. But would allow people to use the > assigned > > code point to represent the L-shaped character "i with lower-right > hook"... > > Not a good idea: the Nogai and Khakass languages appear to have used both > gha/oi and "i with lower right hook" according to > http://www.writingsystems.net/languages/nogai/nogailatin.htm and > http://www.writingsystems.net/languages/khakass/khakasslatin.htm . That's a rewording of what I meant, if my sentence was not clear and was not already demonstrating that "i with lower retroflex hook" is distinct from "oi/gha". Now with the new Peter's remark, this "i with lower retroflex hook" has to be distinct from the small b/soft sign (inherited from cyrillic), even if both could be considered in Azeri as being mostly glyph variants of the same Azeri character. But do we need a separate encoding for this "i with retroflex hook below" ? Couldn't it be encoded safely with <dotless-i><combining retroflex hook below> ? If the problem is that dotless-i as a default case mapping to standard uppercase I whose default lower case mapping would add an unexpected dot above, then it is worth the effort to add it as a precombined character: * <small letter dotless i with retroflex hook> with a compatibility decomposition as <small letter dotless i><combining retroflex hook below>. * <capital dotless-i with retroflex hook> with a compatibility decomposition as <capital ASCII letter I><combining retroflex hook below> and case mappings with each other. Both solutions maintains the distinction with Latin oi (gha) and with the latin soft sign (small b).
