From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 14:13:38 EST
On 05/01/2004 10:23, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
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>>At 16:27 +0100 2004-01-05, Philippe Verdy wrote:
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>>>Why not then use the Latin ton six for all texts in that period, and
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>allow
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>>>glyph variants to show the I with right hook glyph used in early Latin
>>>Azeri?
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>>Because that wouldn't be right.
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>Even if it's encoded with a variant selector after the latin tone six? As
>this is an historic variant of the letter which was then changed to Latin
>soft-sign during the first Latin period, I think it would allow "unifying"
>Azeri texts coded in Latin in 1923-1933 and in 1933-1939.
>
>Considering that Peter knows this language and has seen various forms for
>this character where the bottom hook slightly evolved with various placement
>of this hook, up to the point of becoming similar to the cyrilic soft-sign,
>I think it may be a good option (the 1933 reform may simply reflect a
>gradual evolution of the glyph actually used by people, and a way to use
>existing fonts made to write Russian texts in papers and books)
>
>Was there other uses of this i with lower-right hook in other languages or
>regions ?
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May I remind you of the following, my reply to Charles, on this list
this today:
> Not a good idea: the Nogai and Khakass languages appear to have used both
> gha/oi and "i with lower right hook" according to
> http://www.writingsystems.net/languages/nogai/nogailatin.htm and
> http://www.writingsystems.net/languages/khakass/khakasslatin.htm .
>
> Charles Cox
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> Thank you, Charles. I note also that both Nogai and Khakass used the
> dotless i with lower right as well as the small b or soft sign as
> distinct characters, which implies that these two cannot be considered
> as glyph variants as they might be for Azerbaijani.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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