Re: MODIFIER LETTER ___ H WITH STROKE

17.10.2011 12:12, philip chastney wrote:

> the SIL PUA
> (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=PUA_home)
> is slowly being absorbed into TUS

Private Use Areas are for what the name says, private use. There is no
absorption process from any set of assignments for PUA into Unicode.
Proposals on additions to Unicode are to be evaluated on the basis of
arguments presented, not by this or that PUA assignment.

> one character yet to be added is the U+F1BC MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H WITH
> STROKE

If you follow the link “Download "SILCorpPUAAssign20110321_6.0a.zip"” on
the page you mention and open the PDF file in the zipped folder, then
search for F1BC, you’ll find this:

“For use in phonetic transcription. Actual use has not been encountered,
but it is the only IPA fricative symbol for a superscript form that has
not been encountered.
Not accepted for addition to Unicode (lack of evidence of use).”

Looks pretty clear to me.

> the chart for Latin Extended-D
> (http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.1.0/charts/blocks/UA720.pdf) has a
> character U+A7F8 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL H WITH STROKE
[...]
> are these distinct characters?

Of course. In Unicode, case difference, when it exists, is a
character-level difference. And U+A7F8 was accepted due to demonstrated
usage.

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