On 10 Sep 2013, at 18:01, Asmus Freytag <[email protected]> wrote:
> This rationale is absent in document WG2 N3907 that requests these characters. > > Therefore, it seems these two additions should not have been made. I disagree. The mathematical characters are not proper letters, but are symbols used in mathematics; the letters for German dialectology are no different in principle from the insular letters also encoded for linguistic purposes. > On 9/10/2013 2:23 AM, Jean-François Colson wrote: >> Version 7 of Unicode includes the following two letters: >> ꬲ AB32 LATIN SMALL LETTER BLACKLETTER E >> ꬽ AB3D LATIN SMALL LETTER BLACKLETTER O >> >> There already were the following two: >> 𝔢 1D522 MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR SMALL E >> 𝔬 1D52C MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR SMALL O >> >> For these, there’s an annotation: >> @ Fraktur symbols >> @+ This style is sometimes known as black-letter. >> >> What’s the difference between U+AB32 and U+1D522? >> Between U+AB3D and 1D52C? Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
