Ukainian should follow the romanisation model used by Serbian which is
clear for them and coherent with other uses in Eastern Europe: carons for
modified consonnants, and acute accents (sometimes double acute in
Hungarian) for vowels. Even if they want support with a legacy 8-bit
charset, ISO 3166-2 or windows codepage 1250 would work for them without
much complication.
But there it's like if they wanted to do like German ignoring umlauts
completely and using digrams with "e" instead, and ignore ess-tsetts and
use digrams "ss" everywhere. This looks like a big return backward to the
old age of ASCII-only "typography" of the 1960's (when also French or
Italian were sometimes represented with their acute accents replaced by
ugly digrams with apostrophes...)
2018-01-23 16:18 GMT+01:00 Christoph Päper via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
:
> James Kass:
> >
> > (bottle, east, skier, crucial, cherry)
> > s'i's'a, s'yg'ys, s'an'g'ys'y, s'es'u's'i, s'i'i'e
> > sxixsxa, sxygxys, sxanxgxysxy, sxesxuxsxi, sxixixe
> > s̈ïs̈a, s̈yg̈ys, s̈an̈g̈ys̈y, s̈es̈üs̈i, s̈ïïe
> > śíśa, śyǵys, śańǵyśy, śeśúśi, śííe
>
> [Esperanto orthography] provides the option to either choose x-digraphs,
> h-digraphs or caron diacritics (i.e. circumflex on consonants and breve on
> vowels) and there are some alternative proposals, e.g. substituting 'ŭ' by
> unused 'w'. No naturally evolved orthography, as far as I know, mixes
> consonant and vowel letters in digraphs, but 'j' and 'w' or 'v' can be both
> and 'h' is a special case. Using 'x' after consonants and 'w' after vowels
> would therefore make some sense, although it still looks strange to people
> used to natural graphotactics. Readability may be improved if not all
> diacritics are put above the base letter.
>
> s'i's'a, s'yg'ys, s'an'g'ys'y, s'es'u's'i, s'i'i'e
> sxiwsxa, sxygxys, sxanxgxysxy, sxesxuwsxi, sxiwiwe
> shijsha, shyghys, shanhghyshy, sheshuwshi, shijije
> šíša, šyğys, šañğyšy, šešúši, šííe
> şíşa, şyğys, şañğyşy, şeşúşi, şííe
>
> [Esperanto orthography]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Esperanto_orthography
>
>
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