From: Thomas M. Widmann (thomas@widmann.uklinux.net)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 16:01:33 EDT
Has anybody been working on adding the Danish phonetic alphabet, Dania
(<http://www.dal.lu.se/~si/pdf/dantab.pdf>), to Unicode? I've checked
both the Unicode book and lots of datafiles, and although most of the
characters are of course there, there are many that I could not find
anywhere, e.g. (numbers refer to the PDF file) [ad hoc names]:
53 LATIN LETTER J WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
[its meaning isn't retroflex, but that's how similar letters are
named]
75 LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH CURL
97 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT A
[distinct from U+0251 LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA which is 113]
124/162/165 COMBINING W ABOVE
166 LATIN SMALL LETTER ZETA
Dania is not only of historic interest: the subset needed for modern
Danish is still much more widely used than IPA in Denmark.
If nobody has done any work on this, I might be willing to try to
write a formal proposal, but perhaps it has already been done and I'm
just unaware of it...
Cheers,
Thomas
-- Thomas Widmann, MA Mavisbank Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland, EU thomas@widmann.uklinux.net http://www.widmann.uklinux.net
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