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

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 17:41:39 CST

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    Karl Pentzlin kakimasita:

    > Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 um 23:40 schrieb James Kass:
    >
    > JK> Karl Pentzlin wrote,
    > >> The proposed COMBINING LONG VERTICAL LINE BELOW is admittedly a border
    > >> case, although it is not pure obvious to equate it with the existing
    > >> U+0329 COMBINING VERTICAL LINE BELOW. It also may have an identity
    > >> as a character, rather than being a glyph variant only.
    > JK> ...
    > JK> It's a glyph variant, in my opinion. Adding an appropriate annotation
    > JK> to U+0329 might be a solution.
    >
    > I tend to agree.

    So do I. Could one of you suggest appropriate wording for
    a short (preferably one-line) annotation for U+0329 indicating that
    the whether or not the glyph for U+0329 attaches to the
    bottom of base letters is a matter of font design and/or
    local preference?

    That way it can be taken up quickly as an annotation for
    the Unicode 5.1 names list, and this discussion then can
    focus on a proposal for one fewer mark.

    For the record, I agree with Michael and James about the
    ogonek, as well.

    --Ken

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