From: David Starner (dvdeug@fullnet.net)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 16:59:03 EST
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:00:30AM -0600, Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
> For modern use, perhaps the tz could be represented just
> as such, "tz", perhaps rendered with a ligature. Perhaps, though, it could
> be argued that this should be encoded as a distinct (non-decomposible)
> digraph character, comparable to U+02AB LATIN SMALL LETTER LZ DIGRAPH.
Looking at my source more closely, I find only one other example of the
tz ligature in the text. But I do find, in the vocabulary and
index, words starting with tz are sorting after quatrillo con coma (it
goes z, tresillo, quatrillo, quatrillo con coma, tz). So even for this
text, a tz ligature is marginal. (If Unicode encodes the tresillo and
quatrillo, and I transcribe this text, I may toss a ZWJ between the
ligatured tz's. But I'm afraid that this will show up as an unknown
character on some systems.)
-- David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro Einstein once said that it would be hard to teach in a co-ed college since guys were only looking on girls and not listening to the teacher. He was objected that they would be listening to _him_ very attentively, forgetting about any girls. But such guys won't be worth teaching, replied the great man.
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