Re: Latin chi and stretched x

On 8 Jun 2012, at 12:30, Jean-François Colson wrote:

>>> Look at page 4. If those characters could be applied to Latin letters, we’d have:
>>> ʁ = ʀ + SWR13
>>> ᴙ = ʀ + SWR9
>>> ᴚ = ʀ + SWR5
>>> ᴝ = u + SWR3
>>> ᴟ = m + SWR7
>>>
>>> That would be very practical.
>> This would absolutely be the wrong thing to do.
> Why?

For one thing, it would introduce non-canonical multiple spellings for ʁ, ᴙ, ᴚ, ᴝ, and ᴟ.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Received on Fri Jun 08 2012 - 11:45:40 CDT