Everything dialectology-related is a "fancy presentation" of the phoneme attribute markup.
Leo On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Asmus Freytag <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/13/2013 2:56 PM, Leo Broukhis wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Andries Brouwer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I wondered how to code an s-j overstrike combination in Unicode. >> >> I'd write "s ZWJ j" and use a font that has the appropriate ligature. >> >> >> > These features in Unicode aren't intended as just "hacks" to get the right > appearance. The idea is that you can encode the intention of the author more > directly. Unless the overstruck sj form happens to be nothing more than > fancy presentation of an otherwise normal <s, j> sequence. > > A ZWJ doesn't let you indicate whether you want an overstuck form or some > other fused form, that choice would reside in the font - making the solution > font dependent - which doesn't quite seem the correct approach. > > Otherwise, why not use the BS control code. In the old days of teletypes > that would nicely produce this "overstruck" effect. No need to define > another format character if all you want to do is restore the semantics of > that old control character. > > A./
