Re: Pre-1923 characters?

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 17:54:37 EST

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On 02/01/2004 12:19, D. Starner wrote:

>I'm working with Distributed Proofreaders to produce some minimal
>Unicode character selectors. Right now I'm working on the Latin
>character selectors. Since we soley provide material for Project
>Gutenberg, we usually only deal with characters pre-1923. After
>stripping composable accents, which characters in the Latin blocks
>only appeared after that date? Can I assume that both the Pan-Turkic
>Latin orthography and the Pan-Nigerian alphabet postdate that?
>
>
You are probably safe with the Pan-Turkic Latin alphabet. It seems that
this was adopted followng the First Turkology Congress, held in Baku in
1926, see
http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/81_folder/81_articles/81_turkology_congress.html.

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