On 19 Jun 2013, at 09:59, "Jörg Knappen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Somehow, the compromise solution found at the ad hoc meeting sounds fishy, > because the is no such thing as > LATIN CAPITAL LETTER MARSHALLESE L or LATIN SMALL LETTER MARSHALLESE N (to be > equipped with a cedilla). > > It is not the base letter but the diacritic which makes the difference, hence > names like > > LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH PROPER CEDILLA (marshallese) > > would sound better and more clear. The use of the name MARSHALLESE L and MARSHALLESE N serve to help prevent the mis-use of these characters. > The potential drawback of this is, that yet another diacritic needs to be > added to UNicode, namely the > PROPER CEDILLA that never morphs to a comma below or a turned comma above. > The potential pro of this is that also G, K, and R with PROPER CEDILLA can > be encoded whenever they are encountered in real life. No, the Marshallese letters will not have any decomposition. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
