Re: unicode Digest V4 #3

From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 10:27:12 EST

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    From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org>
    > 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.

    Why not then use the Latin ton six for all texts in that period, and allow
    glyph variants to show the I with right hook glyph used in early Latin
    Azeri?



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