L2/05-105

From: John Esling
Date: 2005-05-02
To: Rick McGowan
Subject: L2/05-097 proposal endorsement
Cc:	Peter Constable, Katerina Nicolaidis, John Wells

Unicode Technical Committee
Rick McGowan

On behalf of the IPA, I would like to endorse the proposal in L2/05-097.
Could you please add it to the documents under consideration at the
next UTC meeting?

The International Phonetic Association assumes a distinction between
the arrows which are IPA symbols 517 'Down arrow' and 518 'Up arrow'
and the arrows which are IPA symbols 661 'Down full arrow' and 662
'Up full arrow', and feels that these should be kept separate in
shape and coding. Accordingly, the IPA supports the addition to
Unicode of the characters MODIFIER LETTER RAISED UP ARROW and
MODIFIER LETTER RAISED DOWN ARROW, as proposed in document L2/05-097,
'Proposal to Encode Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic
Characters', as encoded representations for IPA symbols 517 and 518.

We are very pleased that IPA symbols have enjoyed such favourable
status in coding initiatives over the years, and we hope that font
vendors will continue to incorporate them in as complete a way as
possible into their products.

Yours, John Esling.

cc:  Secretary of the IPA, President of the IPA

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Dr. John H. Esling, Professor
Editor, Journal of the International Phonetic Association
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