At 08:32 AM 25-09-99 -0700, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
>U+0254 LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN 0
>There is an uppercase version of this character ... U+0186 .. but from what
>I understand the Dinka character is subtly different
I would consider this to be a glyph variant. That is, you can legitimately
encode a Dinka form of the uppercase open O as U+0254.
>U+014B LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG
The uppercase encoding is
U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG
Note that there is, again, a glyph variant question. The form of uppercase
Eng printed in the Unicode standard is the form preferred for the Saami
languages which use this character; the form used for African languages is
different but the encoding is the same.
>U+0263 LATIN SMALL LETTER GAMMA
The uppercase encoding is
U+0194 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA
>the six "breathy vowels" are represented by the vowel with dieresis
>
>The vowels in question are : a, e, I, o, U+0254, U+025B
>
>The vowel 'u' does not have a breathy form.
>
>All of which probably means that we'll have to resort to the undesirable
>solution of creating a custom character set and font ...
...unless you are working with a text processing system which has a way of
accessing unencoded glyphs -- e.g. glyph substitution routines or
on-the-fly diacritic composition. If you are working with Unicode savvy
apps, you can also encode the breathy vowels in the Private Use Area.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks
Vancouver, BC
www.tiro.com
tiro@tiro.com
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