On 05/01/2004 07:27, Philippe Verdy wrote:
From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 05/01/2004 05:53, Philippe Verdy wrote:
...
Note that the name I gave just suggests its approximate look. It does not
necessarily mean its is semantically correct. So of course, if the only
use
of
this i with lower-right hook has a better traditional name, it should
have a
name that matches this tradition if it is ever encoded. But for now, in
absence of this character in Unicode, the composition:
<Latin small letter dotless-i><combining retroflex hook below>
or
<Latin capital letter I><combining retroflex hook below>
is quite good to represent it, and it works with Turkish/Azeri case
mappings.
Unfortunately in the same old alphabets the Turkish/Azeri case mappings
don't work with the normal I/i as these follow the normal western case
mappings.
Why not then use the Latin ton six for all texts in that period, and allow
glyph variants to show the I with right hook glyph used in early Latin
Azeri?
That might work with Azeri, but not with Nogai and Khakass which
apparently used these two glyphs as separate letters (though this might
need checking, not an easy task!)
--
Peter Kirk
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