At 08:09 -0700 2004-05-13, Peter Kirk wrote:
But I should like to remind everyone that I did not call Michael "arrogant" on the list, although some subscribers have put these words in my mouth.
I can be arrogant sometimes.
From what others have told me, the only significant such issues that have arisen are Coptic disunification and Kurdish K and Q, and the UTC did *not* initially accept Michael's judgments on these two. So, John, what are some of the very few specific issues on which Michael's judgments *have* been accepted?
YOGH and EZH were disunified. Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli were disunified. The two QOPPAs were disunified. NUNAVUT H and AIVILIK B were disunified from Latin "H" and "b" as letters naturalized by Canadian Syllabics.
I have on my desk a sample of a tentative orthography for a minority language which includes a word
b��b��
Yes, that's Latin b - Cyrillic soft sign - Cyrillic hard sign - Latin b - Cyrillic soft sign - Cyrillic hard sign. (Or perhaps the soft sign should actually be U+0185.) Fortunately I am in a position to exert some influence to tidy this one up, if possible to use only Latin letters.
I would like to learn more about this. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
