From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 09:28:12 EDT
Andrew C. West wrote on 06/20/2003 03:59:10 AM:
> I noticed that in Yuan Jiahua's authoritative overview of Chinese
dialects,
> _Hanyu Fangyan Gaiyao_ (2nd ed., 1980), he uses left-stemmed mirrors of
the
> ordinary right-stemmed tone marks to indicate tone sandhi, the unmutated
tone
> having a right stem, immediately followed by the mutated tone with aleft
stem
Just so -- these left vs. right stems are distinct for Chinese linguists,
which is why I have planned to proposed five left-stemmed tone letters.
> (I can send you a scan off-list if you want). The examples he gives
include
> marks that look identical to U+02EA and U+02EB, as well as many
> other left- and
> right-stemmed tone marks that are not currently encoded in Unicode. Are
these
> the subject of your proposal by any chance ?
Hard to say without seeing them, but if they are simply contours, then
those are already supported in Unicode by means of ligatures of the five
already there. If it's something else, go ahead and send me the scan (with
bibliographic details, please); if it's just contours, then I've got
samples.
- Peter
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