From: António MARTINS-Tuválkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Sun Aug 08 2010 - 11:56:05 CDT
On 2010.08.06, 10:06, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
> Recently I wrote a proposal to encode TOP HALF SECTION SIGN. See
> http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3740.pdf
It is, as usual, very interesting to read on its own — once more, thank
you, Michael!
>> “Palaeotype”, a pre-IPA phonetic alphabet used by Alexander Ellis in
>> his massive and classic four-volume work on early English
>> pronunciation, published in 1869. The TURNED COMMA indicates
>> nasalization, so (in modern IPA) a⸲ means [ã]. Palaeotype also uses
>> the punctuation marks , (COMMA) and ,, (two COMMAs side by side) and .
>> (FULL STOP) and ., (FULL STOP and COMMA) and ; (SEMICOLON) for various
>> purposes. It is not proposed to re-encode all of these as modifier
>> letters;
Why not? It is not that there’s not already a large group of “duplicated”
modifier letters that were historically hacked as such from punctuation
marks, and that is a good thing. We all know why is good to have U+02BC
separated from U+2019, or U+02CD from U+005F, and a bunch of others: Word
count, insertion point movement, etc.
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