From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat Jan 31 2004 - 09:55:58 EST
At 03:22 -0800 2004-01-31, Peter Kirk wrote:
>>Wrong. The math symbols are not used in words in plain text which
>>are conventionally sorted. The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet letters
>>certainly are.
>
>Is the issue that fixing these weights is more bother than it's
>worth, as Ken suggested? Or is it that these weights are actually
>correct, because it is what is wanted by the users, the UPA
>community (and for 11 of the which are in the IPA block, the IPA
>community)? If the latter, I withdraw my objection. But I would want
>to see some evidence that the phoneticians actually want these to be
>sorted as separate letters at the top level.
They are letters, not variants of other letters. See the UPA proposal
documents.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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