Re: Discrepancy between Names List & Code Charts?

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 01:58:05 EDT


At 06:19 PM 15-08-02, James Kass wrote:

>Does anyone know of a writing system which actually uses the
>Latin letter "t" with a bona-fide cedilla?

The newish Gagauz Turkish Latin-script orthography derives from both
Turkish and Romanian models. This has led to a peculiar hybrid, in which
the cedilla is used for the s and the commaaccent is used for the t. If the
Gagauz Turks became interested in stressing their Turkishness, they might
decide that both s and t should use the cedilla, but I've not seen any
examples of this yet. I don't know of any other languages for which the
t-cedilla form might be appropriate, so I've always mapped both U+0163 and
U+021B to the same t-commaaccent glyph.

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

Language must belong to the Other -- to my linguistic community
as a whole -- before it can belong to me, so that the self comes to its
unique articulation in a medium which is always at some level
indifferent to it. - Terry Eagleton



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