From: Donald Z. Osborn (dzo@bisharat.net)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2008 - 05:40:48 CDT
Hi Karl, This is an issue that came up in the context of some African
extended-Latin orthographies as well. See for instance the thread
beginning
http://lists.kabissa.org/lists/archives/public/a12n-collaboration/msg00461.html (the topic resurfaced at various
times).
There are apparently over 140 such lower case characters with no
uppercase (see
http://lists.kabissa.org/lists/archives/public/a12n-collaboration/msg00737.html ). Not sure how many are actively used in
orthographies.
Don Osborn
Quoting Karl Pentzlin <karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de>:
>
> The document L2/05-194 as found on
> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05194r-n2962r-glottal.pdf
> shows an uppercase sample of the Thompson (N?e?kepmxcin) language to
> demonstrate the caseless use of the letter U+0294 (encircled in the
> sample but not subject here), attached here as example1.png .
>
> Looking more in detail, it appears that there letters which are no
> basic Latin letters are not uppercased at all, especially:
> U+02B7 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL W
> (for which exists no formal uppercase, but U+1D42 MODIFIER LETTER
> CAPITAL W could act as uppercase, and in fact from the appearance
> only it is not clearly distinguishable).
> U+019B LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE
> (for which does not exist an uppercase equivalent in Unicode anyhow)
> U+0259 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA or (not determinable by appearance)
> U+01DD LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED E
> (for which uppercase equivalents exist for any of the both possible
> interpretations).
>
> Is this (i.e. not uppercasing letters beside the basic Latin ones
> in an otherwise uppercased text) a common or widespread practice in
> Canadian aboriginal languages?
>
> - Karl Pentzlin
>
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