Re: IPA and sorting

From: John Cowan (cowan@drv.cbc.com)
Date: Wed Sep 24 1997 - 12:30:59 EDT


Michael Everson wrote:

> Candidates for encoding of the top of my head are BETA, THETA, LAM(B)DA,
> and CHI. LATIN LETTERs ALPHA, OPEN E, GAMMA, IOTA, PHI, and UPSILON already
> exist.

There are no other Greek letters in the IPA.

However, I fail to see that this makes the slightest difference to
the sorting issue, because IPA doesn't define any sorting order
whatever! It is also not clear to me that IPA is "quintessentially
Latin"; rather, it is "quintessentially glyphic" and very
intolerant of typical Latin-script concepts like case, variable
"a" glyphs, and variable "g" glyphs. (Only the last point is
officially recognized by Unicode.)

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban



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