From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 14:16:07 EDT
This is interesting information. Would you please make sure to submit this
via the official report form, so it becomes part of the formal public feedback.
Thanks,
A./
At 01:27 AM 4/29/2004, D. Starner wrote:
> > At the February 2004 meeting of the Unicode Technical Committee, a
> > proposal was considered to encode the phonetic symbol LATIN SMALL
> LETTER C
> > WITH STROKE. Some reservation was expressed on the part of some
> committee
> > members, however, due to potential legacy encoding issues. A decision
> was
> > made to give tentative approval of this character, but to prepare a
> public
> > review issue to elicit feedback on the pros and cons of encoding this
> > character.
>
>In the Bureau of American Ethnology reports, early Americanist characters
>are
>used, and they are used with casing, including the C with stroke. For
>example,
>in the attached file, from page 357 of the 3rd annual report of the BAE
>(1884),
>from the Article "Omaha Sociology" by Rev. J. Owen Dorsey (later reprinted
>as
>as Omaha Sociology in 1970), you can clearly see the use of the small letter
>c with slash (circled in blue) and the large letter c with slash (circled
>in
>red). Hence, for proper casing, the cent sign and c with slash can't be
>unified.
>
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