Constantine Stathopoulos wrote:
> Does anybody know why "oxia" and its combinations [...] are also coded
> as "tonos" and combinations [...] although there is no apparent
> grammatical reason and the glyphs should be identical?
A good question. For whatever reason, the glyphs in the Unicode
Standard look different: the oxia looks like a Latin acute accent
and is unified with it, whereas the tonos is a vertical tick mark.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [email protected]
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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