From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 11:04:11 CDT
At 08:36 -0700 2004-06-10, Peter Constable wrote:
>Don't you think the fact that P&L don't show them might suggest that, in
>fact, authors today *don't* particularly use them?
Not necessarily. Indeed, they do quote the name chu: with STRETCHED
C, and with both diacritics, the TILDE for nasalization (which is
standard) and the CARON BELOW for the rising tone (which is not). So
Pullum and Ladusaw are *using* Doke's orthography. If they wanted to
show a different word in that orthography they would have to use one
of Doke's other letters.
>I looked through many publications last year searching for attested
>phonetic symbols not yet encoded, and while my search wasn't
>specifically focused on Africanist usage, I did go through a number
>of Africanist items and never once saw any of these.
Big world, isn't it? There's all those non-Slavic Cyrillic characters
which haven't turned up again either.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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