On 17/09/2004 03:00, Patrick Andries wrote:
U+1E21, the lower case of this, is sometimes used in transliterating Hebrew, for gimel without dagesh which is nominally a fricative variant of gimel, although most pronunciations do not make a distinction here. Such transliterations are normally lower case only, but U+1E20 would be used in an upper case version of this. The legacy font SIL Heb Trans Caps has a glyph looking like U+1E20 (but mapped to U+F067); in SIL Heb Trans the corresponding glyph looks like U+1E21.
Would any one know what is the value of U+1E20 ?
Is this (also) used in Semitic transliterations ? For which value ? Could it be a fricative G ?
But I doubt if this is why this character is precomposed in Unicode, for the same transliteration scheme includes a p with macron but this is not precomposed in Unicode.
Raymond mentions Arabic ghayn, but I would expect this to be transliterated more commonly with U+011F or U+0121.
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