On 19 Jun 2013, at 09:59, "Jörg Knappen" <jknappen_at_web.de> wrote:
> Somehow, the compromise solution found at the ad hoc meeting sounds fishy, because the is no such thing as
> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER MARSHALLESE L or LATIN SMALL LETTER MARSHALLESE N (to be equipped with a cedilla).
>
> It is not the base letter but the diacritic which makes the difference, hence names like
>
> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH PROPER CEDILLA (marshallese)
>
> would sound better and more clear.
The use of the name MARSHALLESE L and MARSHALLESE N serve to help prevent the mis-use of these characters.
> The potential drawback of this is, that yet another diacritic needs to be added to UNicode, namely the
> PROPER CEDILLA that never morphs to a comma below or a turned comma above. The potential pro of this is that also G, K, and R with PROPER CEDILLA can be encoded whenever they are encountered in real life.
No, the Marshallese letters will not have any decomposition.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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