Re: Why blackletter letters?

On 10 Sep 2013, at 18:01, Asmus Freytag <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> This rationale is absent in document WG2 N3907 that requests these characters.
>
> Therefore, it seems these two additions should not have been made.

I disagree. The mathematical characters are not proper letters, but are symbols used in mathematics; the letters for German dialectology are no different in principle from the insular letters also encoded for linguistic purposes.

> On 9/10/2013 2:23 AM, Jean-François Colson wrote:
>> Version 7 of Unicode includes the following two letters:
>> ꬲ AB32 LATIN SMALL LETTER BLACKLETTER E
>> ꬽ AB3D LATIN SMALL LETTER BLACKLETTER O
>>
>> There already were the following two:
>> 𝔢 1D522 MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR SMALL E
>> 𝔬 1D52C MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR SMALL O
>>
>> For these, there’s an annotation:
>> @ Fraktur symbols
>> @+ This style is sometimes known as black-letter.
>>
>> What’s the difference between U+AB32 and U+1D522?
>> Between U+AB3D and 1D52C?

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Received on Tue Sep 10 2013 - 13:07:17 CDT