Re: Scholarly query

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Tue Sep 07 1999 - 13:54:17 EDT


Mark forwarded a query from Dr. Meri:

>
> Perhaps the characters you seek are in Spacing Modifiers. If not, you might try
> looking in some other blocks. It is often the case that characters, for
> historical reasons, are allocated in different blocks than one might expect. I
> will cc the Unicode distribution list in case someone there can add more
> information.

>
> "Dr. Josef W. Meri" wrote:
>
> > Dear Mr. Davis:
> >
> > I am writing an essay on recent developments in scholarship in the field of
> > Near Eastern Studies for a specialist journal and would like to know how the
> > Unicode standard will simplify academic publishing through the use of
> > Unicode-based Semitic transliteration fonts. I notice that in the Latin
> > Extended Additional Code Chart that almost all the characters for the
> > transliteration of Semitic languages are present. However the superscripted
> > c (Arabic 'ayn) and reverse superscripted c (Arabic hamza) are not
> > represented. These are essential characters. Is there a solution? Will

The characters in question are:

U+02BE MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING
   for transliteration of Arabic hamza
U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING
   for transliteration of Arabic ain

--Ken Whistler

> > the Latin Extended Additional Code Chart be standard with Microsoft's
> > Windows 2000
> > OS? How then will the Unicode standard make academic publishing using
> > transliteration fonts easier? Thank you.
> >



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