Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

From: James Partridge (james.partridge@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 17:42:55 EDT


As any Slovak should tell you, the preferred form of upper-case L-caron is
the one with the apostrophe...

James

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James Partridge
St Edmund Hall
Oxford University
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Waigh" <anzu@home.com>
To: "Darren Morby" <darren.morby@psion.com>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Darren Morby wrote:
>
> > In The Unicode Standard Version 3.0, the Latin small letters d l and t
with
> > caron (U+010F, U+013E, U+0165) are actually shown with a trailing
apostrophe
> > (d', l', t'). On each character there is the following note:
> >
> > the form using apostrophe is preferred in typesetting
> >
> > However, the Latin capital letter L with caron (U+013D) is shown with an
> > apostrophe (L') but no note. The Latin capital letters D and T with
caron
> > (U+010E, U+0164) show proper carons and notes that the preferred form is
> > with a caron (hacek).
> >
> > Which is the preferred form, L with an actual caron or L with an
apostrophe?
> > And should there not be a note on capital L like there is on small l?
(The
> > note on small l does not say that it applies to capital L also.)
> >



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