On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> I only thought about this possible misinterpretation of "letter titlo"
> after my letter was sent. "Letter titlo" is not a letter with
> (combining) titlo above. It's a special sort of titlo with a small
> letter underneath it and the whole thing acts like a combining mark.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification and information.
> > What is genuinely missing is IOTIFIED A. Because LITTLE YUS and
> > IOTIFIED A fell together in Russian as /ja/, Peter eliminated the
> > latter and adopted a modified form of LITTLE YUS, now CYRILLIC
> > LETTER YA.
>
> But aren't IOTIFIED A and YA just glyph variants (with LITTLE YUS
> lacking a parallel glyph in Peter's civil alphabet, merging with YA
> instead).
Historically YA is a glyph variant of LITTLE YUS, not of IOTIFIED A,
I am told. So given that we have already encoded YA and LITTLE YUS
(unavoidable, really, considering how different they look), IOTIFIED
A has no representation.
-- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter
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