On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Denis Jacquerye <[email protected]> wrote: > Marshallese uses the letters L/l, M/m, N/n, and O/o with cedilla. > > The Ad Hoc http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13128-latvian-marshal-adhoc.pdf > concluded that encoding > LATIN CAPITAL LETTER MARSHALLESE L WITH CEDILLA > LATIN SMALL LETTER MARSHALLESE L WITH CEDILLA > LATIN CAPITAL LETTER MARSHALLESE N WITH CEDILLA > LATIN SMALL LETTER MARSHALLESE N WITH CEDILLA > would cause the least architectural disruption and would be the best > way to proceed. > > How can that be the best way? > How would one rationalize using one diacritic U+0327 with M/m and O/o > but not with L/l and N/n in Marshallese? > A single combining diacritic to use with Marshallese L/l, M/m, N/n and > O/o would be easier to deal with. > It would require less new characters to be encoded and would make it > easier to support in fonts (adding 1 instead of 4). > It would also be easier to implement on keyboard layouts (same > behaviour four all Marshallese letters with cedilla instead of 2 > different behaviours) . >
Furthermore, the cedilla can also have a proper cedilla form as opposed to the Latvian or Livonian comma below form in transliteration systems. ALA-LC romanizations use cedilla with r as they do under c or s. BGN/PCGN and UNGEGN romanizations use cedilla with d as they do under h, s, t or z. DIN 1460-2 uses the cedilla under d, k, l, n as it does under c, h, s, t and z. If the 4 Marshallese cedilla characters are encoded as single characters, does this mean the d, k, l, r with proper cedilla in those romanizations would also have to be encoded as single characters? Encoding 1 combining diacritic character is more efficient than encoding 12 characters. Note: I am not aware of a g cedilla with a proper cedilla. ------------ UNGEGN (Arabic): http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/ ALA-LC (Non-slavic languages: Romani): http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html BGN/PCGN (Arabic): http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/romanization.html -- Denis Moyogo Jacquerye African Network for Localisation http://www.africanlocalisation.net/ Nkótá ya Kongó míbalé --- http://info-langues-congo.1sd.org/ DejaVu fonts --- http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/
