Re: Latin letter small capital Q?

From: John W Kennedy (jwkenne@attglobal.net)
Date: Fri Jul 17 2009 - 14:18:59 CDT

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    On Jul 17, 2009, at 3:13 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:

    > On Jul 17, 2009, at 2:16 PM, António MARTINS-Tuválkin wrote:
    >> At < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceirt >, it is said that the Ogham
    >> letter Ceirt ("ᚊ", U+168A OGHAM LETTER CEIRT) is «transcribed as
    >> Q»,
    >> the latter marked up with HTML tag "SMALL". I’m therefore surprised
    >> not to find a Latin letter small capital Q in Unicode, among so many
    >> other such characters
    >> ("ɢɪɴɶʀʁʏʙʛʜʟᴀᴁᴃᴄᴅᴆᴇᴊᴋᴌᴍᴎᴏᴐᴕᴘᴙᴚᴛᴜᴠᴡᴢᴣ
    >> "). Irish
    >> issues are surely not overlooked by the character encoding
    >> experts. ;-)
    >
    > The SMALL tag is merely an artifact of the typesetting of that
    > particular sentence in Wikipedia, not a distinction in standard
    > Latin transcription of Ogham. Gaelic is not Klingon.
    >
    > --
    > John W Kennedy
    > "The pathetic hope that the White House will turn a Caligula into a
    > Marcus Aurelius is as naïve as the fear that ultimate power
    > inevitably corrupts."
    > -- James D. Barber (1930-2004)
    >
    >
    > 

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