From: CE Whitehead (cewcathar@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 22 2010 - 17:39:29 CDT
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> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:06:53 +0200
> Subject: Is there any unambiguous vowel length mark code point for
> classicists?
> From: solfegeing@gmail.com
> To: unicode@unicode.org
>
> Greetings To All List Members,
>
> I would like to know if there is any combining diacritical that
> can be added after vowel characters to denote vowel length as
> distinguished from syllable length (or, to use W. S. Allen's preferred
> term, "syllable weight") to be used with the Classical Greek and Latin
> languages. In case there is no standard code point for this purpose, is
> there any Unicode-compliant way to encode this feature that someone
> competent can recommend instead? I would like to know this because I
> have some remote plans to produce a custom font that uses glyphs for
> long Classical Greek (and perhaps Latin) vowels (long Alpha, Iota and
> Upsilon in particular) that are distinguishable both from their short
> counterparts and also from a possibly ambiguous corresponding
> vowel+macron combination, and I do not want to encode this font in a
> non-standard way. I would need this because a vowel+macron combination
> is also used sometimes to denote syllable length ("weight") in
> syllables where the vowel actually happens to be short.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Gy. Dobner
>
>
Agreed this would be nice to have if it is not there. Many other languages have such a mark. One would do for Latin and Greek together I agree, if that is what you are asking for, though I am not the expert.
Best,
--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar@hotmail.com
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