Re: Representation of neutral tone in pinyin and bopomofo

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Markus Scherer <markus.icu_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> I think if you download
> http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/collation/zh.xml you
> will find some comments about at least one set of tone marks.
> (I am not currently in a space where I can do it for you.)
>

Finally got around to this one. The CLDR collation data has this for zhuyin:
                <<ˉ # zhuyin first tone, normally unmarked in zhuyin
                <<ˊ
                <<ˇ # zhuyin third tone
                <<ˋ
                <<˙ # zhuyin fifth tone, neutral (unmarked in pinyin)
                <<˪ # zhuyin tone special for non-mandarin e.g. Taiwanese
Hokkien
                <<˫ # zhuyin tone special for non-mandarin e.g. Taiwanese
Hokkien

For pinyin we have data like this:
    &[before 2]a<<ā<<<Ā<<á<<<Á<<ǎ<<<Ǎ<<à<<<À

markus
Received on Fri Nov 22 2013 - 14:51:30 CST