Re: Luiseño Character "S WITH STROKE"

From: Clark Cox (clarkcox3@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 14:25:26 CST

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    On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:21:27 -0400, Chris Harvey <chris@languagegeek.com> wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > I am currently working with the Pechanga Nation and the company,
    > IconNicholson. The standard orthography of the Luiseño language, spoken at
    > Pechanga and several other communities in Southern California, requires
    > two characters which I believe are currently absent from Unicode.
    >
    > The characters are "majuscule S with a diagonal stroke", and "minuscule s
    > with a diagonal stroke". This letter is used to represent a voiceless
    > retroflex fricative, which is distinct from the alveolar fricative "s" and
    > the palato-alveolar "sh".
    >
    > Please see:
    > http://www.languagegeek.com/other/sstroke.html

    What's wrong with <U+0073, U+0338> and <U+0053, U+0338>? 

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