Re: Missing African Latin letters

From: dzo@bisharat.net
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 06:41:42 EST

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    We've had some discussion on A12n-collaboration of such letters without
    uppercase versions in Unicode. The notion of capital letters "not being used"
    in certain languages was called into question for reasons of typographic
    flexibility (what linguists may have meant was actually that these letters are
    not usually found in initial position in words?). I'd think it worth
    considering adding these.

    But first ... what languages do you know them to be used in? I've tried to
    collate and present a lot of such information on the "A12n" gateway page (see
    http://www.bisharat.net/A12N/#countrytables ) but this is only a start.

    Re the r striked or with bar, I know that to be used in Kanuri (at least in
    Niger), and presently it can be composed with one of the combining diacritics
    (don't have the charts handy).

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    Don Osborn
    Bisharat.net

    Quoting Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>:
    > Some letters used in Latin transcription of Pan-Sahelian scripts are still
    > missing in Unicode:
    > Is there a proposal to include them, as they are needed for case folding and
    > capital transcrtiption?
    >
    > I can identify immediately these two ones that would be needed on
    > Pan-Sahelian keyboards:
    >
    > U+027E LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK
    > U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK
    >
    > U+0266 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH HOOK
    > U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH HOOK
    >
    > But there are some other Latin letters that don't have their uppercase
    > version. As well there are missing letters like R STRIKED (not the Rx
    > symbol)
    >
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