Am Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2012 um 22:54 schrieb David Starner: DS> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Julian Bradfield DS> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Surely there is no basis for distiguishing characters solely on >> the basis of weights that are an artefact of the writing device - >> nobody would propose using or encoding LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED O, >> I hope.
U+1D11 LATIN SMALL LETTER SIDEWAYS O (encoded for UPA) comes near to this. DS> LATIN SMALL LETTER ROTATED P was used; see DS> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BAE-Siouan_Alphabet.png . It DS> has caused some whimpering among those trying to transcribe the text. DS> (It's not Dorsey's fault; apparently he used a unique handwriting DS> alphabet to transcribe the language, but the editors and printers DS> choose this transcription.) The LATIN SMALL LETTER ROTATED P is also known from other sources, see e.g. http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4081.pdf , fig. 77 (named LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED P there). (On discussing this document at the WG2 meeting in Helsinki last year, it was delayed for further study and thus not progressed into N4106.) - Karl
