Re: Latin chi and stretched x

From: Karl Pentzlin <karl-pentzlin_at_acssoft.de>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:42:23 +0200

Am Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2012 um 22:54 schrieb David Starner:

DS> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Julian Bradfield
DS> <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.

U+1D11 LATIN SMALL LETTER SIDEWAYS O (encoded for UPA) comes near to this.

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

The LATIN SMALL LETTER ROTATED P is also known from other sources,
see e.g. http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4081.pdf , fig. 77
(named LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED P there).
(On discussing this document at the WG2 meeting in Helsinki last year,
 it was delayed for further study and thus not progressed into N4106.)

- Karl
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