Re: IPA and sorting

From: Klaas Ruppel (ruppel@domlang.fi)
Date: Wed Sep 24 1997 - 01:58:36 EDT


At 17.34 +0100 23.9.1997, Michael Everson wrote:
>In the Standard there are letters, used with the IPA like LATIN SMALL
>LETTER ALPHA which sorts with LATIN SMALL LETTER A -- but the current
>mappings to IPA also use GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA as a basic constituent of
>the IPA.

The Fenno-Ugric Transcription (FUF) - the "IPA" for Uralics - is
Latin-based and makes use of Greek characters too. The Greek letters in
question are at least ALPHA BETA GAMMA DELTA EPSILON ETA THETA CHI.

Our national following up group will - among other things - come back to
the FUF issue when current work is done.

Best regards,

Klaas Ruppel (ruppel@domlnag.fi)
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