From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 13:33:23 EST
At 19:23 +0100 2004-01-05, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
>
>> At 16:27 +0100 2004-01-05, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>>
>> >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?
>>
>> Because that wouldn't be right.
>
>Even if it's encoded with a variant selector after the latin tone six?
Yes, even if such odious pseudo-coding were employed.
>As this is an historic variant of the letter which was then changed to Latin
>soft-sign during the first Latin period, I think it would allow "unifying"
>Azeri texts coded in Latin in 1923-1933 and in 1933-1939.
It is NOT a variant of the soft sign. It is a variant of the letter i.
>Was there other uses of this i with lower-right hook in other languages or
>regions ?
Yes.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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