Re: Proposal to encode three combining diacritical marks for Low German dialect writing

From: James Kass (thunder-bird@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 16:25:29 CST

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    Karl Pentzlin wrote,

    > Regarding the proposed COMBINING STRAIGHT RIGHT-POINTING HOOK BELOW
    > and its similarity to the existing U+0238 COMBINING OGONEK, the
    > similarity is only very superficial. The proposed character has a
    > straight vertical stem and attaches to the center or something left of
    > the center of its base character. Thus, it has the general shape of a
    > Greek small iota.

    In other words, the proposed new character looks exactly like the
    ogonek in the popular Tahoma font, graphic attached.

    Best regards,

    James Kass



    tahooogonek.PNG

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