From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 12:55:13 EDT
On 2003.07.07, 00:25, Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Maybe originally U+044B (cyrillic "y", "yery") was two separate
> letters,
It sure it (though I should provide some references to back this up? Hm,
later...)
> but it is certainly considered and used as one letter in Cyrillic
> languages today. Encoding it as two letters would be about as
> sensible as insisting that w should be encoded as two u's or that i
> should be encoded as dotless i plus combining dot.
Well, that was precisely my point when asking how much dutch "ij" (as in
"rijk", not as in "bijectie") is an analogous case.
> Note that "yery" is also sometimes written with an acute accent
> centred over the two elements, to indicate stress.
Indeed, in (at least, Russian) dictionaries and schooll books. It can
also recieve an umlaut in Maryan (precomposed as U+04F9), again center
over the enseble of both elements.
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