Re: Pre-1923 characters?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 18:20:53 EST

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At 14:54 -0800 2004-01-02, Peter Kirk wrote:
>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.

You will find Turkic letters in that alphabet which predate that congress.

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