Hello,
I am currently working with the Pechanga Nation and the company, IconNicholson. The standard orthography of the LuiseÃo language, spoken at Pechanga and several other communities in Southern California, requires two characters which I believe are currently absent from Unicode.
The characters are "majuscule S with a diagonal stroke", and "minuscule s with a diagonal stroke". This letter is used to represent a voiceless retroflex fricative, which is distinct from the alveolar fricative "s" and the palato-alveolar "sh".
Please see: http://www.languagegeek.com/other/sstroke.html
We have written up a formal proposal for the addition of these characters, which I would like to submit after hearing the comments of the people on this list.
Thank-you
Chris Harvey -- Gwlad heb iaith, gwlad heb galon
www.languagegeek.com www.firstvoices.ca
