Re: lists of actual character/diacritic combinations (fwd)

From: James E. Agenbroad (jage@loc.gov)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 13:51:18 EST


                                              Wednesday, March 1, 2000
Oops! For "with hook" in the attached message read "with horn". Sorry..

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          Jim Agenbroad ( jage@LOC.gov )
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 13:45:40 -0500 (EST)
From: James E. Agenbroad <jage@loc.gov>
To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Cc: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
Subject: Re: lists of actual character/diacritic combinations

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, John Cowan wrote:

>
>
>
> An interesting point about ANSEL is that it treats u-horn and o-horn
> as unique letters like eth and ae, rather than as u and o with a
> COMBINING HORN as Unicode does. Since HORN is not applied to any
> other letters, I wonder why it was analyzed out by the Unicode
> designers (only saved 3 codepoints).
>
> --
>
> John Cowan
>
                                            Wednesday, March 1, 2000
John,
     See Unicode 2.0 at U+01A0 and U+01A1 for latin letter O/o with hook
and U+01AF and U+01B0 for U/u with hook.
                                        
     Regards,
          Jim Agenbroad ( jage@LOC.gov )
     The above are purely personal opinions, not necessarily the official
views of any government or any agency of any.
Phone: 202 707-9612; Fax: 202 707-0955; US mail: I.T.S. Dev.Gp.4, Library
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