Re: Transliterator

From: Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela@cs.tut.fi)
Date: Mon Apr 25 2005 - 23:02:33 CST

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    On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Doug Ewell wrote:

    > > [a + BAR ABOVE] for "aa" as in balm,
    >
    > U+0101 (ā), or U+0061 plus U+0304 (ā).

    To clarify, this means that the short horizontal line above a letter is
    identified as COMBINING MACRON. This is common for the diacritic that
    indicates vowel length in many transliteration, transcription, and
    phonetic writing systems.

    > > [m + DOT ABOVE } for M as in saMgiita
    >
    > U+006D plus U+0304 (m̄). There is no precomposed version of this.

    I think "[m + DOT ABOVE]" means an "m" with a diacritic dot above it,
    not macron. (I'm not sure of the intended meaning of writing "M", though.)

    That would be U+006D U+0307 in decomposed form, and it has a precomposed
    version: LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH DOT ABOVE, U+1E41.

    -- 
    Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
    


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