From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Tue Mar 22 2005 - 14:39:34 CST
Could you please name these characters correctly as they are in ISO 10646?
Namely: LATIN SMALL LETTER A, and LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA
(OK the name "alpha" is borrowed from Greek, because the italicized
"script-a" looks very much like a greek alpha, where the one-loop roman
"script-a" is more like the handwritten latin a with just one loop under the
x-eight).
The distinction of these letters are made in some African languages too (But
is there such distinction in uppercase form in some language using this
letter, and is there a proposal to map such letter? What is the alternate
letter form of 'A' in that case: a 'A' with some hooks on the legs or on
some side of the horizontal stroke? a double horizontal stroke? a taller
M-height one-loop "script-a"? something else?).
Thanks...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
To: "Unicode Discussion" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: 'lower case a' and 'script a' in unicode
> At 12:54 +1100 2005-03-22, Alec Coupe wrote:
>
>>I would like to know why 'lower case a' is converted to 'script a' when it
>>is italicized in unicode.
>
> Because that is the usual behaviour of the letter "a".
>
> In Uralic linguistics, both a and script-a are used. In addition, they
> commonly represent Uralic phonetic texts in italics. This is instructive.
> The italic shape of a is a sloped script-a as you have observed, and the
> italic shape of script-a is similar to that of an italic Greek alpha. So
> it *is* possible to distinguish them in italic style.
>
> For examples see http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2419.pdf
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