L2/11-185

Date/Time: Wed May 11 17:00:48 CDT 2011
Name: John Cowan (cowan@ccil.org)

Subject: Regarding Second Revised Proposal to encode characters for
	the English Phonotypic Alphabet (EPA) in the UCS

Ref: L2/11-153

The 1847 version of the EPA uses italic k and q to represent specific
non-English sounds (ch in German _ich_ and g in 19th-century German _tag_
respectively), but L2/11-153 proposes no encodings for them.  I believe it
would be inappropriate to use markup, since roman k and q represent different
sounds in EPA.  The mathematical italic letters are also in my view
inappropriate, since they are meant specifically for mathematical symbology,
not for use in running text.  Therefore, LATIN SMALL LETTER ITALIC K and LATIN
SMALL LETTER ITALIC Q should be added to the proposal and placed in Latin
Extended-D if there is room.