IS META wrote: > Can anyone tell me what the intended use(s) of the character ᾽ (U+1FBD > GREEK KORONIS) is/are, please? Or, failing that, where I can find out?
Section 7.2, "Greek" in TUS 9.0 says: > Greek Extended: U+1F00–U+1FFF > [...] > Spacing Diacritics. Sixteen additional spacing diacritical marks are > provided in this character block for use in the representation of > polytonic Greek texts. Each has an alternative representation for use > with systems that support nonspacing marks. The nonspacing > alternatives appear in Table 7-3. The spacing forms are meant for > keyboards and pedagogical use and are not to be used in the > representation of titlecase words. The compatibility decompositions of > these spacing forms consist of the sequence U+0020 SPACE followed by > the nonspacing form equivalents shown in Table 7-3. Source: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode9.0.0/ch07.pdf -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
