From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Sat Dec 06 2003 - 00:12:34 EST
Michael Everson wrote:
> 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 transcription?
> > 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=IntlNiameyK
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> it can be observed that, of the set of letters used, four of them do
> not have capital forms:
>
> U+0266 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH HOOK
> U+027E LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK
I gave these two ones in my message.
> U+0251 LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA
(Note that the Big Alpha has a glyph often made distinct from an uppercase
A, using a rounded top instead of the angular shape, but some writers seem
to add a turned breve (or a breve or another diacritic) above a standard A,
to make it appear as Alpha and not A. Sometimes the "alpha" is marked with a
AE or ae letter (I think it comes from limited character sets, where AE was
present but there was no possible distinction for the Latin letter Alpha). I
don't know the language in which it is written, so I can't say if they are a
fallback convention for printing or a separate orthographic letter. May be
an Africanist will reply to this...
> U+0273 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
I did not list them, but there are other missing capital letters:
(outside of glottal stops which do not seem to have case
variation, although it may be possible that this is rendred
in some African texts for titles):
01AA;LATIN LETTER REVERSED ESH LOOP;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;<??>;;<??>;
<??>;LATIN CAPITAL REVERSED ESH LOOP;Lu;0;L;;;;;N;;;01AA;;
01BA;LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH TAIL;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;<??>;;<??>;
<??>;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH WITH TAIL;Lu;0;L;;;;;N;;;01BA;;
0271;LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH HOOK;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;LATIN SMALL LETTER M
HOOK;<??>;;<??>;
<??>;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M WITH HOOK;Lu;0;L;;;;;N;;;0271;;
0289;LATIN SMALL LETTER U BAR;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;<??>;;<??>;
<??>;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U BAR;Lu;O;L;;;;;N;;;0289;;
028C;LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;<??>;;<??>;
<??>;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED V;Lu;0;L;;;;;N;;;028C;;
On the opposite, there seems also to exist x-height bilabial click (i.e. a
lowercase version, the encoded one being probably uppercase/noncased)...
0298;LATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK;<???Lu???>;0;L;;;;;N;LATIN LETTER
BULLSEYE;;<??>;;
<??>;LATIN SMALL LETTER BILABIAL CLICK;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;0298;;0298;
And of course there are the three missing letters:
U+???? LATIN SMALL LETTER R BAR
U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R BAR
U+???? LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH HOOK
U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH HOOK
U+???? LATIN SMALL LETTER KHI (or X WITH HOOK?)
U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER KHI (or X WITH HOOK?)
And did not check all the letter variants composed with lower dots rather
than hooks and bars, but this second set seems complete.
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