Re: the usage of LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH STROKE

From: Janusz S. Bien <jsbien_at_mimuw.edu.pl>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 17:17:57 +0200

Quote/Cytat - Gerrit Ansmann <gansmann_at_uni-bonn.de> (Sun 31 May 2015
05:01:36 PM CEST):

> On Sun, 31 May 2015 16:32:36 +0200, Janusz S. Bień
> <jsbien_at_mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:
>
>> I'm curious what was the motivation for adding the character to Unicode.
>
> According to the Code Chart for Latin Extended B
> (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0180.pdf), it’s used for
> Sencoten. It was also used in some old Norwegian texts (for a start,
> see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_K%c3%b8lle).

Thank you very much for the link to old Norwegian (I was aware of Sencoten).

Best regards

JSB

-- 
Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bień -  Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra  
Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bień - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department)
jsbien@uw.edu.pl, jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl, http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
Received on Sun May 31 2015 - 10:18:49 CDT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Sun May 31 2015 - 10:18:49 CDT