Re: U+00D0, U+01b7 -- variants or distinct chars?

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 10:46:30 EST

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    On 2003.03.17, 23:26, Peter_Constable@sil.org <Peter_Constable@sil.org> wrote:

    > U+01B7: The glyph that appears in the code charts is that shown in
    > LtnCapEzh_LrgLC.gif. In the Dagbani language of Ghana, they use a small
    > letter that looks like U+0292 LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH, but the capital
    > counterpart that they use is like the glyph shown in
    > LtnCapEzh_RevSigma.gif. This is quite different in appearance from the
    > representative glyph for U+01B7. Should this be considered a glyph
    > variant of U+01B7, or should it be considered a distinct character?

    I guess it is indeed a variant of U+01B7, but it sure looks better than
    the usual "3"-like shape of it...

    > U+00D0: The glyph that appears in the code charts for U+00D0 is shown
    > in LtnCapEth_DStrk.gif. Now, the African Reference Alphabet document
    > that was produced at a conference in Niamey in 1978 proposed a small
    > letter that looks like U+00F0 LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH, but the capital
    > counterpart is like the glyph shown in LtnCapEthLrgSqLC.gif. This is
    > quite different in appearance from the representative glyph for
    > U+00D0. Should this be considered a glyph variant of U+00D0, or should
    > it be considered a distinct character?

    I guess it is yes a glyph variant but rather for U+0189.

    On 2003.03.18, 00:20, Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com> wrote:

    > To do otherwise would be to introduce casing problems for eth.

    No, if it is supposed to be, as I suppose, U+0189, whose the LC form is
    U+0256. Anyway, U+00D0 and U+0110 are casing problems enough for this
    glyph... ;-)

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