From: Chris Harvey (chris@languagegeek.com)
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 09:33:44 CDT
Hello
Many North American Native languages use underlined letters as part of
their orthographies. This probably goes back to the use of typewriters,
where a quick backspace+underscore would have been easy enough to type on
the US keyboard.
All examples below are from Shoshoni and Kwakwaka’wakw.
Where it is only a single character which is underlined, the solution
would be U+0331 COMBINING MACRON BELOW.
Thus ‘a̱’ (underlined ‘a’) would be U+0061 U+0331.
In a situation where two characters make up one orthographic letter, which
is underlined, one would use U+035F COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON BELOW.
Thus ‘a͟i’ (underlined ‘ai’) would be U+0061 U+035F U+0069
But what about situations where three or more characters make up one
orthographic letter which is underlined, such as ‘aai’ or ‘aaii’? The
underline should be one long line, not three or four individual MACRON
BELOWs.
I can think of a few options.
a) aai (all underlined) could have two COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON BELOWs:
U+0061 U+035F U+0061 U+035F U+0069
b) aai (all underlined) could use three COMBINING LOW LINES (U+0332):
U+0061 U+0332 U+0061 U+0332 U+0069 U+0332
Option a) seems to be more consistant with underlined ’ai’.
If b) is chosen, should then underlined ‘ai’ use two COMBINING LOW LINEs
as well?
Thank-you very much
Chris Harvey
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