From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 17:50:19 EST
At 10:36 +0100 2003-12-05, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>Some letters used in Latin transcription of Pan-Sahelian scripts are still
>missing in Unicode:
>Is there a proposal to include them, as they are needed for case folding and
>capital transcrtiption?
>
>I can identify immediately these two ones that would be needed on
>Pan-Sahelian keyboards:
>
>U+027E LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK
>U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK
>
>U+0266 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH HOOK
>U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH HOOK
Looking at the International Niamey keyboard layout given at
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=IntlNiameyKybd
it can be observed that, of the set of letters used, four of them do
not have capital forms:
U+0251 LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA
U+0266 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH HOOK
U+0273 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
U+027E LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK
In addition, but perhaps problematic, is the use in Niamey orthography of
U+02C0 MODIFIER LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
which may also case in principle in Africanist use. On this list we
have discussed the relation of
U+0294 LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
with an x-height *LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP used in Athapascan.
What shall we do? Research seems required. ;-)
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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