From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 19:24:27 EST
> My first answer to my correspondent was "just use Roman h."
That would be my suggestion, too. It is available now -- it matches
current practice, and requires no further action.
> A program that was sorting text, or trying to determine what script
> a word was written in, would get confused by hε̄γεμο̄ν.
As for sorting -- if you are sorting epigraphical Greek, you likely
need customized tables, anyway. Just add "h" and treat it
appropriately.
As for determination of script, you need to ask yourself, for
what purpose. If this is something like regular expression
matching, then again, it doesn't matter so much -- you would just
attempt to match against strings containing letters of the Greek
script + "h", and you'd get what you expect.
> Would this justify a proposal for "Greek small letter epigraphical h"?
I don't think so. Not unless you can demonstrate that this really
is a distinct character, as opposed to a special usage of the already
existing Latin "h" -- which is what it seems to be.
--Ken
>
> David
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