Re: Missing African Latin letters

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 05:43:46 EST

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    At 10:36 +0100 2003-12-05, Philippe Verdy wrote:
    >Some letters used in Latin transcription of Pan-Sahelian scripts are
    >still missing in Unicode:

    Prove it.

    >Is there a proposal to include them, as they are needed for case folding and
    >capital transcrtiption?

    Not till you prove it.

    >I can identify immediately these two ones that would be needed on
    >Pan-Sahelian keyboards:
    >
    >U+027E LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK
    >U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK
    >
    >U+0266 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH HOOK
    >U+???? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH HOOK
    >
    >But there are some other Latin letters that don't have their
    >uppercase version. As well there are missing letters like R STRIKED
    >(not the Rx symbol)

    http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html 

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