Re: Montagnard / Vietnam Highlands characters

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 23:28:13 EST


Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com> wrote:

> b-stroke: <0180> ~ <0180> id.
> ...
>> (all in both lower- and upper-case variants).
>
> Substitute out the uppercase for the relevant base characters, and
> you have it.

There's a problem, though. There is no uppercase form of U+0180 LATIN
SMALL LETTER B WITH STROKE, and no apparent way to compose it using
combining characters.

Jerome could try U+0042 plus U+0336 (COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY), or
perhaps U+0335 (COMBINING SHORT STROKE OVERLAY), but that doesn't seem
right since there is not a single "with stroke" letter in all of Unicode
that can be decomposed into a base character plus a combining stroke.
(Why is that?)

Jerome may have discovered a character missing from Unicode. The rest,
of course, can all be composed as Ken and James indicated.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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