L2/11-189

Ad-hoc Report: Review of Characters for Lithuanian Dialectology

Ken Whistler, Peter Constable
2011-05-11

In reviewing the proposal from Vladas Tumasonis and Karl Pentzlin on
characters for Lithuanian dialectology (L2/11-135), the ad-hoc concluded
that most of the characters are appropriate for encoding, though with
certain changes in names and properties; four characters should be
unified with existing characters.


Characters deemed appropriate to be unified:

LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH INWARDS HOOK (proposed at U+AB82) should be
unified with (and deemed to be a glyph variant of) the existing character
1D86 LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH PALATAL HOOK.

LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH INWARDS HOOK (proposed at U+AB83) should be
unified with either 014B LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG or 1D87 LATIN SMALL LETTER
N WITH PALATAL HOOK. (Lithuanian dialectology has a two-way contrast for
palatal and velar nasals; the palatal nasal could be deemed to be a glyph
variant of 1D87, and the velar nasal can be deemed to be a glyph variant
of 014B.)

MODIFIER LETTER SLANTED UP ARROW (proposed at U+AB90) should be unified
with U+2197 NORTH EAST ARROW. (This corresponds to the representation
used for the corresponding arrow used in IPA.)

MODIFIER LETTER SLANTED DOWN ARROW (proposed at U+AB91) should be unified
with U+2198 SOUTH EAST ARROW. (This corresponds to the representation used
for the corresponding arrow used in IPA.)


Characters deemed appropriate for encoding:

The following characters should be encoded, with glyphs as in L2/11-135,
with changes to names and properties as indicated below:

2B4E SHORT NORTH EAST ARROW  (GC = So)
    (was U+AB94 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL MIDDLE SLANTED UP ARROW, GC = Lm)

2B4F SHORT SOUTH EAST ARROW  (GC = So)
    (was U+AB95 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL MIDDLE SLANTED DOWN ARROW, GC = Lm)

2B5A NORTH EAST ARROW WITH HOOKED HEAD (GC = So)
    (was U+AB92 MODIFIER LETTER SLANTED UP ARROW ENDING IN BEND, GC = Lm)

2B5B SOUTH EAST ARROW WITH HOOKED TAIL  (GC = So)
    (was U+AB93 MODIFIER LETTER SLANTED DOWN ARROW STARTING WITH BEND, GC = Lm)

2B5C NORTH EAST ARROW WITH HORIZONTAL TAIL  (GC = So)
    (was U+AB96 MODIFIER LETTER SLANTED UP ARROW STARTING WITH HORIZONTAL LINE, GC = Lm)

2B5D SOUTH EAST ARROW WITH HORIZONTAL TAIL  (GC = So)
    (was U+AB97 MODIFIER LETTER SLANTED DOWN ARROW STARTING WITH HORIZONTAL LINE, GC = Lm)

2B5E BENT ARROW POINTING DOWNWARDS THEN NORTH EAST  (GC = So)
    (was U+AB98 MODIFIER LETTER SLANTED LINE WITH NORTH EAST ARROW FROM THE LOWER END, GC = Lm)

2B5F SHORT BENT ARROW POINTING DOWNWARDS THEN NORTH EAST  (GC = So)
    (was U+AB99 MODIFIER LETTER SHORT SLANTED LINE WITH NORTH EAST ARROW FROM THE LOWER END, GC = Lm)

2E3D VERTICAL SIX DOTS (GC = Po)
    (was U+2E4E DOTTED VERTICAL LINE)

2E3E WIGGLY VERTICAL LINE (GC = Po)
    (was U+2E4F)

A794 LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH PALATAL HOOK (GC = Ll)
    (was U+AB80)

A795 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH PALATAL HOOK (GC = Ll)
    (was U+AB81)

A69C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC HARD SIGN (GC = Lm, Script = Cyrillic)
    (was U+AB9A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HARD SIGN)

A69D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SOFT SIGN (GC = Lm, Script = Cyrillic)
    (was U+AB9B MODIFIER LETTER SMALL SOFT SIGN)