Re: k with stroke?

From: Jörg Knappen (knappen@uni-mainz.de)
Date: Fri Apr 15 2005 - 03:44:39 CST

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    On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, vlad wrote:

    > Has a 'Latin letter K with stroke' character been proposed to
    > Unicode before? If so, what's its status?

    Is greek symbol kyathos (look like Rx, but based on K) suitable for you?
    It was proposed by the Thesaurus linguae greacae group and is afaik
    accepted to UNicode.

    (see: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/Uni.prop.html under "Greek numerical
    characters")

    > It has the stroke through the ascender, which isn't easily achievable
    > with COMBINING SHORT STROKE OVERLAY. It's used in linguistic texts for
    > phonetic transcription, in medieval texts as an abbreviation for
    > "kalendas" (it's included in the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative's
    > PUA), and a capital form with the stroke through the middle of the
    > letter (like KIP SIGN) is used in the Sencoten orthography (but wasn't
    > proposed along with the other Sencoten letters?).

    --J"org Knappen



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