Re: Is there any unambiguous vowel length mark code point for classicists?

From: Mark Davis ☕ (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Wed Oct 27 2010 - 19:31:33 CDT

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    If you are looking for something that is visually distinguishable from a
    macron, and not the same code point sequence internally, why not use a
    different character?

    Maybe:

    U+0305 <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=0305> ( ̅ )
    COMBINING OVERLINE

    or one of the other 1,199 combining marks:

    http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=[:Mn:]&g=ccc

    Mark

    *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*

    On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 16:49, Győző Dobner <solfegeing@gmail.com> wrote:

    > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:41:13 -0400
    > David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Győző Dobner <solfegeing@gmail.com>
    > > wrote:
    > > > Actually, it would be even better to have something like a
    > > > COMBINING PHONEME LENGTH MARK that can be used with both
    > > > vowels and consonants in any script or language whatsoever and that
    > > > would display differently in different languages, depending on the
    > > > language tag used.
    > >
    > > No. Unicode has pretty much declared it won't do anything of the sort.
    > > It would introduce ambiguity; there are already enough ways of
    > > encoding ā without adding another one.
    >
    > This latter one was only a quick idea of mine and I was actually going
    > to add something like "if it is compatible with the Unicode
    > guidlines/policies".
    > But my original question was not how to encode a combining macron in one
    > more possible way but how to encode a length mark that would display as
    > something _visually_ _distinguishable_ _from_ _a_ _macron_ (because the
    > macron is functionally ambiguous and hence unsuitable for my purposes).
    > Is it e.g. possible (i.e. is it Unicode-compliant) to combine a macron with
    > some
    > non-displaying character for this purpose, and if so, with which
    > non-displaying
    > character? I understand that ZERO-WIDTH JOINER is not supposed to be used
    > in this way (or am I mistaken?).
    >
    > Best Regards,
    >
    > Gy. Dobner
    >
    >
    >

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