Re: Abkhaz letters

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Oct 23 2003 - 13:25:00 CST

This is extremely interesting (especially that
KU) and I will look into it when I get home from
the States in early November.

At 18:14 +0100 2003-10-22, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
>I was asked (or rather challenged) to transcribe into a web page the
>writings on the emblem of the Abkhazian ASSR approved in 1925.04.01,
>which were set using the 1909-1926 orthography.
>
>I put it at < http://www.tuvalkin.web.pt/unicode/su-geab.jpg > and
>started working on it. Minutes later I ened up with a number of question
>marks, which I'd like to have your input about:
>
>(around the rim:)
>&#1040;&#1055;&#1056;&#1054;&#1051;&#1045;&#1058;&#700;&#1040;&#1056;&#1062;&#1040;
>&#1040;??&#1051;&#1040;&#1219;&#1059;&#1040;
>?&#1045;&#1043;&#780;?
>&#1056;&#1214;&#780;?&#1030;?&#1054;&#1059;
>&#1065;&#1214;&#1045;&#1030;&#1044;?&#1065;&#1050;?&#1051;
>
>(inside the disc:) &#1057; &#1057; &#1056; &#1040;&#1191;&#1089;&#1085;?
>
>My doubts refer to:
>
>- Reversed sigma -- is it a variant of U+01B7 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER
> EZH?

U+04E0

>- Something that looks like a latin "V" -- later replaced by U+042B as
> suggested at <http://www.flagspot.net/flags/su-geab.html#1923> and
> <http://www.flagspot.net/flags/su-geab.html#1928>? How should it be
> encoded?

I have to look into this.

>- Resversed "P" -- cyrillic "Q"? How should it be encoded?

With the as-yet unencoded CYRILLIC LETTER KU.

>- I feel tempted to put a <GJ> between the apostrophe and the "A" in the
> first word... Regular letter-apostrophe or diacritical (comma above
> left?)?...
>
>The original image at < http://soviet.lovehinaplus.com/CGEORGIA.HTM >
>and more info at < http://coffeenews.narod.ru/News/Simbol/IM_001.html >.
>
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