From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 17:03:29 EDT
Kent Karlsson wrote on 06/02/2003 02:25:08 PM:
> > Utterly wrong. Uppercase vowel symbols (**including Ø**) have
> > been used in Americanist phonetics to indicate voiceless vocoids;
> In such cases it would be a terrible choice to use the EMPTY SET
> character
> for denoting a linguistic "zero" of any kind, since in print one may not
> be able to distinguish one of the vowels from a linguistic "zero".
Not at all: both the slashed-zero and slash-circle glyphs are distinct from
the O-stroke glyph in many type faces.
- Peter
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