From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jun 30 2005 - 11:16:23 CDT
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf
> Of Chris Harvey
> U+028C LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V (Used in the Oneida langauge)
> The capital of ‘ʌ’ should look like U+039B GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA;
> should one use this as a capital turned v? Or is having one “letter” in
> two scripts unadvisable.
The character U+0244 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED V has been accepted.
> The Heiltsuk language uses a lowercase Greek lamda ‘λ’ for the [dl] sound,
Well, saying it's a *Greek* lambda presumes the very question you're leading up to.
> however its capital is an upside-down Latin Y (proposal in the works). My
> question here is whether there needs to be a new Latin lowercase lamda to
> pair with the soon-to-be-proposed Latin capital Lamda. I would think that
> this is similar to the epsilon ‘ε’, which has both a Greek and Latin
> codepoint. Or is it good enough to use the Greek lamda U+03BB here.
I would propose LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA. We really don't want a case pair from two different scripts. (BTW, there is a latin small lambda *with stroke* -- U+019B.)
Peter Constable
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