Re: Text scans needed containing slashed letters of 19/20th century Latvian and Sorbian orthography

From: André Szabolcs Szelp (a.sz.szelp@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 27 2008 - 02:29:36 CST

  • Next message: Karl Pentzlin: "Re: Text scans needed containing slashed letters of 19/20th century Latvian and Sorbian orthography"

    Sorry for the double post, I did not notice Ch. Fynn's mail and your reply
    before posting this. I blame the change of the subject line ;-)

    Sorry for the hassle!

       /Sz

    2008/10/27 André Szabolcs Szelp <a.sz.szelp@gmail.com>

    > Karl,
    >
    > why not simply use
    >
    > U+0337 COMBINING SHORT SOLIDUS OVERLAY
    > or
    > U+0338 COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY
    > ?
    >
    > I thought we'd encode composable characters only, if they are part of a
    > legacy encoding?
    >
    > The slashed S was also used in Latvian, not only in Sorbian, but it's
    > actually a slashed LONG S, afaik.
    >
    > /Szabolcs
    >
    >
    > 2008/10/27 Karl Pentzlin <karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de>
    >
    > Hello everybody,
    >> I am working on a proposal to encode letters which occur in 19th century
    >> Latvian and early 20th century Lower Sorbian orthography.
    >>
    >> These are the slashed versions of G/g, K/k, N/n, R/r, and S/s.
    >> All of these occur in 19th century Latvian; the slashed S/s occurs in
    >> early 20th century Lower Sorbian.
    >>
    >> You find the draft of my proposal (entitled: "Proposal to encode 10 Latin
    >> letters with diagonal stroke") at:
    >> http://www.pentzlin.com/Diagonalstrokes.pdf
    >>
    >> To complete this proposal, I need any scans or digital photographs
    >> from text containing the proposed letters, with the bibliographical
    >> information regarding these texts.
    >> (Especially, I hope to get more appropriate examples of 19th century
    >> Latvian orthography as the fig. 2 contained in the 2008-10-26 draft
    >> of my proposal.)
    >>
    >> I would appreciate any such texts or any other comments regarding my
    >> proposal, especially if I could get them in time to finish my proposal
    >> this week (last week of October 2008), in time to the next UTC meeting.
    >> You can mail me privately to (in English or German):
    >> karl-pentzlin (at) europatastatur (dot) de.
    >>
    >> Many thanks in advance for any help.
    >>
    >> Best wishes
    >> Karl Pentzlin
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >
    > 

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