Please note that overlaid diacritics are not used in decomposition of characters in the Unicode Standard, unless they are used for the indication of negation of mathematical rules (see TUS 7.0, section 7.9 Combining Marks and 2.12 Equivalent Sequences).
Sincerely Erkki I. Kolehmainen -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Unicode [mailto:[email protected]] Puolesta Janusz S. "Bien" Lähetetty: 1. kesäkuuta 2015 14:50 Vastaanottaja: David Starner Kopio: [email protected] Aihe: Sencoten and Unicode policy (was: the usage of LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH STROKE) On Mon, Jun 01 2015 at 3:29 CEST, [email protected] writes: > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:09 AM Janusz S. Bien <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The proposal makes me curious about past and present Unicode > policy, > e.g. would it be accepted if submitted now. > > > Why wouldn't it? Unicode has, if anything, seemed to become more > flexible about adding characters that seeing any sort of use. > On Sun, May 31 2015 at 18:20 CEST, [email protected] writes: [...] > The upper case was introduces for Sencoten, and the proposal is here > http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04170-sencoten.pdf The document's author states: Although they could be made up of Letter + overlay diacritic, it is my understanding that the Unicode Consortium would prefer to create unique code points for these types of letters (e.g. recent acceptance of LATIN LETTER SMALL C WITH STROKE). Is this true? On the other hand, according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saanich_dialect in 2014 there was "about 5" native speakers of the language. Best regards Janusz -- , Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bien - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej) Prof. Janusz S. Bien - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department) [email protected], [email protected], http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
