RE: More additional Greek (and Hebrew) characters needed for proposal

From: Robert Wheelock <rwhlk142_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:38:12 -0400

Hello again, y’all!

I’ve got quite a few characters (currently missing) that DO need proposal
for inclusion! I typed up a document (for the new Fontboard polytonic
Greek/Coptic keyboard layouts) that list the Unicode hexidecimal numerical
values for the polytonic/monotonic Greek precomposed characters, and found
out that (at least) 17 vowel/accent combos are still missing:

H-C IOTA and UPSILON with both DIALYTIKA and ACCENTS (8 precomposed
characters)
H-C ALPHA, ĒTA, and ŌMEGA with both PROSGEGRAMMENĒ and ACCENTS (9
precomposed characters).

Besides those, there’re accented consonants that also need encoding—ZĒTA
and SIGMA with DIALYTIKA (H-C/L-C), GAMMA with TILDAS, GAMMA; KAPPA; and
KHI with OVERDOT, KAPPA; PI; TAU with TILDAS, LAMBDA; MU; NU with both
PSILI and DASEIA, LAMBDA; MU; NU; and RHŌ with UNDERRING, ... .

As far as Hebrew is concerned, we NEED these new characters encoded:

WAW with a TRUE SHURUQ (the inner dot positioned a bit higher than a
DAGHESH or a MAPPIQ)
The same (above mentioned) WAW-TRUE SHURUQ with a DAGHESH added
WAW with both a ḪOLAM atop and a DAGHESH inside
Doubly-pointed SHIN letters—a plain one + one with a DAGHESH added
MEM SOFITH with a right-positioned ḪIRIQ
ḪAṬAFOTH vowel points—each with SILLUQ/METHEGH interjected within
KHAF SOFITH and FEʾ SOFITH with RAFEH (especially for Yiddish)
GHIMEL; DHALETH; and THAW with RAFEH
CHIMEL; ĹAMEDH; and ÑUN with VARIQAʾ (especially for Ladino)
BENT LAMEDH—plain, with ḪOLAM, with DAGHESH, and with both DAGHESH + ḪOLAM
YUDH-WAW ligature
GALGAL HAFUKH accent (especially for Yiddish)
GIMEL; DALETH; ZAYIN; ṬETH; LAMEDH; NUN; SAMEKH; ʿAYIN; and REʾSH with
GALGAL HAFUKH (for Yiddish palatal consonanats and the /e/ vowel sound)
An assortment of letters with top dot configurations—single, double
horizontal, triple up-triangular, and quadruple squared—for the typography
required for miscellaneous Jewish languages, as these top-dotted letters
are intended to imitate the ʾIJAM dots in the corresponding Arabic letters
The Palestinian, Babylonian, and Yemenite systems of vowel pointing and
cantillation.

Please find the .PDF document on the polytonic Greek character codepoint
listings; I’ll need to finish—and publish—a similar publication for Hebrew
characters. Thank You!

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