On 2010.08.06, 10:06, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently I wrote a proposal to encode TOP HALF SECTION SIGN. See > http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3740.pdf
It is, as usual, very interesting to read on its own — once more, thank you, Michael! >> “Palaeotype”, a pre-IPA phonetic alphabet used by Alexander Ellis in >> his massive and classic four-volume work on early English >> pronunciation, published in 1869. The TURNED COMMA indicates >> nasalization, so (in modern IPA) a⸲ means [ã]. Palaeotype also uses >> the punctuation marks , (COMMA) and ,, (two COMMAs side by side) and . >> (FULL STOP) and ., (FULL STOP and COMMA) and ; (SEMICOLON) for various >> purposes. It is not proposed to re-encode all of these as modifier >> letters; Why not? It is not that there’s not already a large group of “duplicated” modifier letters that were historically hacked as such from punctuation marks, and that is a good thing. We all know why is good to have U+02BC separated from U+2019, or U+02CD from U+005F, and a bunch of others: Word count, insertion point movement, etc. -- António MARTINS-Tuválkin ____. <[email protected]> | ()| Não me invejo de quem tem |####| PT-1500-111 LISBOA carros, parelhas e montes | +351 934 821 700, +351 212 463 477 só me invejo de quem bebe | ICQ:193279138 http://tuvalkin.web.pt/ a água em todas as fontes | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- De sable uma fonte e bordadura escaqueada de jalde e goles, por timbre a bandeira, por mote o 1º verso acima, e por grito de guerra "Mi rajtas!". -------------------------------------------------------------------------
