John Cowan asked:
> Where does this strange beast come from?
Semitic transliteration practice, if I recall correctly.
> Its name is LATIN SMALL LETTER
> A WITH RIGHT HALF RING, and the right half ring is indeed above the "a".
> We don't have a RIGHT HALF RING ABOVE combining mark, so it only gets a
> compatibility decomposition.
It's not really an *above* diacritic, but a little 02BE hamza half ring
sitting at the upper right shoulder. The Unicode 3.0 glyph looks odd
to me -- the Unicode 2.0 glyph made more sense.
It's more akin to U+0149 as an oddball addition to the standard.
--Ken
> Who would need a lower-case letter with a unique diacritic, and no upper-case
> equivalent? The U+1Exx block is "random junk inherited from 10646 DIS 1",
> Does anyone understand it?
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