Along the same lines, should I be able to change my last name officially to Ƃpyxᴎc? (NB all letters are codepoints with names starting with "LATIN").
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Marcel Schneider <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:04:20 +0000, Denis Jacquerye <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The article uses the unicase ʔ U+0294 LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP in the >> name Sahaiʔa. >> [...] >> The CBC’s March article and a MacLean’s article were using the unicase ʔ >> U+0294 as well >> [...] >> The Toronto Star, Metro News Toronto had articles using the uppercase Ɂ >> U+0241 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP in the name SahaiɁa. This probably >> should have been the unicase ʔ U+0294 or the lowercase ɂ U+0241 LATIN SMALL >> LETTER GLOTTAL STOP ([...]). >> [...] >> Searching on the web, only a couple of pages (that are now offline) use >> the lowercase ɂ U+0241 LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP in Sahaiɂa. > > This raises the problem of yet another ambiguation, this one due to original > diverging usages about casing vs non-casing glottal stop. Latin being a > casing script, the glottal stop should be casing only. Since this is > available, making an effort to unify the usage may be desirable. > > Here, this results in ensuring that Sahaiɂa and all other people with a > glottal stop in their name will escape trouble with even more officialdom. > > Best hopes, > > Marcel
