Micheal Everson schrieb:
>>>> * Add preemptively LATIN [CAPITAL|LOWERCASE] LETTER * WITH CEDILLA ATTACHED for every Latvian/Livonian character currently in UNicode.
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>>> Why? Latvian and Livonian don't use letters with "proper" cedilla attached.
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>> Maybe my english wasn't perfect here; of course I think that for writing Latvian the existing characters shall be used. I meant "for" in the sense of "foreach" or "for loop" in programming languages.
>I have no idea what that means. You want to add a bunch of new non-decomposed characters with a proper cedilla… why?
>> And yes, I think not only the four character required for marshallese, but also the other ones (g, k, and r).
>Why?
The first reason is to solve this problem completely and not only to resolve a Latvian-Marshallese conflict and leave some other exceptions for later.
The second reason is that the letter g, k, l, m, r with proper cedillas are currently not encodable using UNicode (because of the latvian exceptions and canonical composition/decomposition), but they should *obviously* be encodable.
>>>> (Don't use terms like MARSHALLESE [CAPITAL|LOWERCASE] LETTER [M|N] -- such entities don't exist from a character encoding point of view.)
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>>> Yes they do. Cf. U+0406 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I. The character name exists to distinguish it from other characters and to guide the user in the character's use.
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>> But that character exists as a base letter with a distinct shape. There is no distinct base letter marshallese m or n.
>There is no decomposition. There is no base character + diacritic. The whole thing is a "letter" used in Marshallese. (It's just a name.)
Allthough there is the famous Goethe quote "Namen sind Schall und Rauch" I think good naming style matters, and I prefer the descripte style LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH PROPER CEDILLA (marshallese) to the ad-hoc style
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER MARSHALLESE LETTER L WITH CEDILLA. But this is a question of style and can be debatted endlessly without consensus.
--Jörg Knappen
>Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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