On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, David Starner wrote: > At Wiktionary, we're looking at (U+1E98) and we can't figure out > where it came from. It's from Unicode 1.1, which makes it hard to look > up discussion on adding it, and the characters around it don't seem to > give clues to its origin.
U+1E96 has the note "Semitic transliteration". Indeed U+1E96 to U+1E9A are used for transliterating Arabic according to ISO 233. "w with ring" is "waw with sukun".
