On 21 Jun 2013, at 09:09, "Jörg Knappen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> * Add preemptively LATIN [CAPITAL|LOWERCASE] LETTER * WITH CEDILLA ATTACHED >>> for every Latvian/Livonian character currently in UNicode. > >> Why? Latvian and Livonian don't use letters with "proper" cedilla attached. > > Maybe my english wasn't perfect here; of course I think that for writing > Latvian the existing characters shall be used. I meant "for" in the sense of > "foreach" or "for loop" in programming languages. I have no idea what that means. You want to add a bunch of new non-decomposed characters with a proper cedilla… why? > And yes, I think not only the four character required for marshallese, but > also the other ones (g, k, and r). Why? >>> (Don't use terms like MARSHALLESE [CAPITAL|LOWERCASE] LETTER [M|N] -- such >>> entities don't exist from a character encoding point of view.) > >> Yes they do. Cf. U+0406 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I. >> The character name exists to distinguish it from other characters and to >> guide the user in the character's use. > > But that character exists as a base letter with a distinct shape. There is no > distinct base letter marshallese m or n. There is no decomposition. There is no base character + diacritic. The whole thing is a "letter" used in Marshallese. (It's just a name.) Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
