From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 14:50:41 CST
At 09:15 -0400 2004-10-19, Dean Snyder wrote:
>* Yod
>The proposed characters are already covered by:
>1EC8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH HOOK ABOVE
>1EC9 LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH HOOK ABOVE
No, those are for Vietnamese.
>* Ayin
>Both Egyptian and Semitic transliterations commonly use the left single
>quotation mark to transliterate ayin, with Egyptian sometimes exhibiting
>a glyphic, i.e. font, variant. I submit that small transliteration ayin
>is already covered by one of the following Unicode characters, requiring
>us only to encode a corresponding capital form of the character:
>2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
>02BD MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA
>02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING
>02C1 MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP
I don't believe this is correct. A wide range of practices needs to
be looked into here. I have a hunch as to the answer, and it will
surprise some. I am still collating, however, in what spare time I
have.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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