Re: unicode Digest V4 #3

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 10:19:05 EST

  • Next message: Philippe Verdy: "Re: unicode Digest V4 #3"

    On 05/01/2004 05:53, Philippe Verdy wrote:

    > ...
    >
    >Note that the name I gave just suggests its approximate look. It does not
    >necessarily mean its is semantically correct. So of course, if the only use
    >of
    >this i with lower-right hook has a better traditional name, it should have a
    >name that matches this tradition if it is ever encoded. But for now, in
    >absence of this character in Unicode, the composition:
    > <Latin small letter dotless-i><combining retroflex hook below>
    >or
    > <Latin capital letter I><combining retroflex hook below>
    >is quite good to represent it, and it works with Turkish/Azeri case
    >mappings.
    >
    >
    >
    Unfortunately in the same old alphabets the Turkish/Azeri case mappings
    don't work with the normal I/i as these follow the normal western case
    mappings.

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    Peter Kirk
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