From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 08:47:23 EST
At 23:23 -0800 2002-12-18, Doug Ewell wrote:
>I just noticed, in the WG2 character charts for Amendment 2 of Part 1,
>that U+1D25 is called LATIN LETTER AIN but U+1D5C is MODIFIER LETTER
>SMALL AIN. Where did the word SMALL come from?
Oh, I probably pasted it in when making the names list.
>All the other modifier letters are called CAPITAL or SMALL (or both)
>to denote the case of the underlying letter, not to point out that a
>modifier letter is smaller than a normal letter.
True.
>If U+1D25 is to be LATIN LETTER AIN -- not CAPITAL or SMALL -- then a
>more consistent name for U+1D5C would be MODIFIER LETTER AIN.
You should have made that comment through your L2 before the last
ballot closed. It is too late to change this. Sorry.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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