Re: Latin chi and stretched x

From: David Starner <prosfilaes_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:54:50 -0700

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Julian Bradfield
<jcb+unicode_at_inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Surely there is no basis for distiguishing characters solely on
> the basis of weights that are an artefact of the writing device -
> nobody would propose using or encoding LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED O,
> I hope.

LATIN SMALL LETTER ROTATED P was used; see
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BAE-Siouan_Alphabet.png . It
has caused some whimpering among those trying to transcribe the text.
(It's not Dorsey's fault; apparently he used a unique handwriting
alphabet to transcribe the language, but the editors and printers
choose this transcription.)

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