RE: TATAP => TATAR

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 17:04:41 EDT


Cathy,

I have found four references to support your contention. A reference to it
using a Latin script, another to "Azari-Arabic, Azari-Cyrilic &
Azari-Turkish", I found a Mac font system but I don't have a Mac to try it
and I installed a True Type font that seems to produce both a dotted and an
accented i.

BTW I also found that it seems that there is a movement to Latinize Uigur as
well that started about 1960.

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: Cathy Wissink [mailto:cwissink@microsoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:22 AM
To: 'Carl W. Brown'; Unicode List
Subject: RE: TATAP => TATAR

I believe Azeri also uses the dotless i/dotted i Turkish-style casing.

Cathy

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl W. Brown [mailto:cbrown@xnetinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 9:03 AM
To: Unicode List
Subject: RE: TATAP => TATAR

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Herman Ranes [mailto:herman@iet.hist.no]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 6:30 AM
>To: Unicode List
>Cc: unicode@unicode.org
>Subject: Re: TATAP => TATAR

>Several Tatar language links here:
>http://members.tripod.com/~anttikoski/eng_tatar.html

>In particular, the Tatar-Bashkir latin alphabet is presented in RFE/RL's
>site at
>http://rferl.org/bd/tb/tatar/TATAR/abs.html

>Are all these characters supported in UNICODE?

I was unaware that they were moving back to the Latin alphabet.
What jumps out at me is that case conversion code like the code that I just
submitted for inclusion into ICU is wrong. Turkish is not the only language
with dotted and dot less i. I assume that Tatar and Bashkir should follow
the same rules as Turkish. Are there other languages?

So I guess that I should check for "ba", "tt" & "tr" for special case
shifting. I presume that the alphabet is listed in proper sort order?

Carl



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