Re: Proposal to add 2 Romanian characters

From: Vladas Tumasonis (vladas.tumasonis@maf.vu.lt)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 08:58:08 EDT

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    Cristian Secarã wrote:

    >I like to make a proposal for 2 Romanian characters to be added to the
    >Unicode / ISO 10646-1 (Basic Multilingual Plane) character set.
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    Similar problem in Lithuanian: we need 35 (!) accented letters. Our
    official proposal was not accepted.

    Vladas Tumasonis

    >The new characters should be
    >- Latin small letter i with circumflex and acute accent
    >- Latin capital letter I with circumflex and acute accent
    >
    >Details: the Romanian language has 6 (3x2) complex accented characters,
    >used in rare occasions; these characters are:
    >- Latin small letter a with breve and acute accent (Unicode 1EA5)
    >- Latin capital letter A with breve and acute accent (Unicode 1EA4)
    >- Latin small letter a with circumflex and acute accent (Unicode 1EAF)
    >- Latin capital letter A with circumflex and acute accent (Unicode
    >1EAE)
    >- Latin small letter i with circumflex and acute accent (no Unicode)
    >- Latin capital letter I with circumflex and acute accent (no Unicode)
    >
    >For the first 4 characters, see this example
    >http://www.secarica.ro/unicode_1ea5_1eaf.jpg (.jpg, 124 K)
    >For the last 2 characters, see this example
    >http://www.secarica.ro/unicode_none.jpg (.jpg, 100K)
    >
    >>From a practical point of view, these characters can be rather
    >considered as U+0103 with acute accent, U+0102 with acute accent,
    >U+00E2 with acute accent, U+00C2 with acute accent, U+00EE with acute
    >accent and U+00CE with acute accent.
    >However, from a machine point of view, this is an unfortunate approach.
    >
    >These characters are usually needed by some academic literature (like
    >dictionaries). The acute accent is normally never needed in daily
    >written Romanian language. The acute accent is an explicit information
    >about pronunciation, only required in texts where contextual confusion
    >may occur, or where pronunciation rules are explicitly described.
    >
    >I recently identified this problem, because in our new keyboard
    >national standard the characters 1EA4, 1EA5, 1EAE and 1EAF were
    >included in an "informative" annex. At the same time it was impossible
    >to include a reference to characters [Latin small letter i with
    >circumflex and acute accent] and [Latin capital I with circumflex and
    >acute accent] because of the lack of an appropriate Unicode code point.
    >
    >For reference, the above examples are from this book
    >http://www.secarica.ro/ghilimele_ioop.png (.png, 47K)
    >
    >Thank you.
    >Best wishes,
    > Cristi
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