Re: The Geejay (was: Acceptable alembic glyph variants)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2008 - 08:42:41 CST

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    At 15:34 +0100 2008-01-03, Andreas Stötzner wrote:
    >Am 03.01.2008 um 14:04 schrieb Michael Everson:
    >
    >>At 13:12 +0100 2008-01-03, Andreas Stötzner wrote:
    >>
    >>>I complied a little consideration upon it, see
    >>>http://www.signographie.de/cms/front_content.php?idart=232&changelang=2
    >>>
    >>>- Will be funny business for our case pairing enthusiasts :-)
    >>
    >>On foot of the shape of the letter I would
    >>consider encoding it as the capital form of
    >>U+0261, as LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G.
    >
    >That would surely be wrong. The shape reveals
    >that it is meant to be a synthesis of G and j.
    >This is something else than "some G".

    I don't see this as significant. The "script g"
    of the IPA looks very much like a "script a" with
    a j-like tail. In the context of the German
    dictionary you show, I would probably argue to
    encode /g/ with "g" and the "stimmhaftes sch"
    with the IPA "script g". It's clear that the
    letter used is a capital G with a tail and not a
    small letter, which is why a capital might be
    used. But the dot n that capital form is not
    significant. And the small-capital-g you've drawn
    with a dot above is, to my mind, a bit silly.

    -- 
    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
    


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