Re: Shimaore and Kibushi alphabets

From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Mon Jan 18 2010 - 12:34:16 CST

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Barlier Alain wrote:

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> Shimaore and Kibushi alphabets (see Wikipedia articles) include the
> following diacritics which are missing in UNICODE 5.1 ...
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> //
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> / /
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> Are there some ongoing discussions to provide Unicode definitions for
> them ?
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>

The short answer is "no". Please see also:
http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html#11
http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html#9
http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html#12

There are also threads in the archives of this list that discuss these
issues, in particular, why more such combinations will not be added.

Cheers,
Rick

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