RE: Missing African Latin letters (bis)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 18:46:07 EST

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    At 15:30 -0800 2003-12-05, Peter Constable wrote:

    > > On this list we have discussed the relation of
    > >
    >> U+0294 LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
    >
    >Actually, is LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP. It is only the general category
    >property in the UCS that suggests lowercase.

    My pasting error.

    > > with an x-height *LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP used in Athapascan.
    > >
    >> What shall we do? Research seems required. ;-)
    >
    >I think what seems required is simply to add a new character for the
    >lowercase and change the property of 0294 to Lu.

    I was looking at a book on Cherokee phonetics today and 0294 was used
    in lower-case text word-internally. Now that's not necessarily a
    problem; PALOCHKA is also upper-case and is used word-internally. But
    I thought I'd mention it. 

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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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