Re: List of Latin characters which look the same but are encoded differently

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@icu-project.org)
Date: Fri Dec 28 2007 - 16:09:47 CST

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    No, it isn't complete. Take a look at UTRs 36 and 39, especially the data in
    http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/#References

    Mark

    On Dec 27, 2007 12:21 AM, Karl Pentzlin <karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de> wrote:

    > There are some Latin characters which look the same (at least very
    > similar, dependent of the font) but are encoded differently, all because
    > they are
    > paired with a character of the other case which are clearly different.
    >
    > Thus, the letter to be used cannot derived from its visual appearance
    > alone,
    > but its context must be taken into account (a problem e.g. when designing
    > the labelling on a keyboard).
    >
    > 1.) Ð U+00D0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH, lower case is:
    > ð U+00F0 LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH
    > Đ U+0110 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE, lower case is:
    > đ U+0111 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
    > Ɖ U+0189 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AFRICAN D, lower case is:
    > ɖ U+0256 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH TAIL
    >
    > 2.) ə U+0259 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA, upper case is:
    > Ə U+018F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA
    > ǝ U+01DD LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED E, upper case is:
    > Ǝ U+018E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED E
    >
    > 3.) Ɂ U+0241 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP, lower case is:
    > ɂ U+0242 LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
    > ʔ U+0294 LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP, which is caseless.
    >
    > Is this list complete (besides digraphs etc.)?
    >
    > - Karl Pentzlin
    >
    >
    > 

    -- 
Mark

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