Do you mean that these characters will be encoded without permitting canonnical decompositions (because it would violate the equivalences with Latvian/Livonian) ?
If so, what you want is just to explicitly say that these cedillas for Marshallese (or other uses) should be attached and not rendered with a comma below (current practices). Note that we've also have cases were the cedilla is shown as a comma above right... Why using the term MARSHALLESE then ? shouldn't it be enough to name them: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CEDILLA ATTACHED BELOW LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CEDILLA ATTACHED BELOW LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH CEDILLA ATTACHED BELOW LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CEDILLA ATTACHED BELOW This exhibits something interesting : what you want to encode is in fact an explicit variant form for the cedilla (for use in Marshallese), but not for the base letter itself. But then Latvian/Levonian users will also want to have their own variants encoded as well. Can't we imagine : - the encoding of a new non ambiguous cedilla (i.e. COMBINING CEDILLA ATTACHED BELOW) ? - or the encoding with an existing variant selector ? before or after the cedilla ? (these two alternatives was not proposed in the five strategies analysed). 2013/6/19 Denis Jacquerye <[email protected]> > 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) . > > -- > 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/ > > >
