Letters missing for 19th century Latvian orthography?

From: Karl Pentzlin (karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de)
Date: Wed Aug 03 2005 - 06:38:34 CDT

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    According to sources (1) and (2), Latvian used some letters
    with diagonal stroke in its 19th century orthography. These are
    G,g, K,k, L,l, N,n, R,r, S,s, long s.
    See attached scans from (1) p.231 (Faulmann-p231.png) and from (2),
    p.595 (Allen-p595.png).
    Of these, only L,l are encoded in Unicode 4.1 (unless I overlooked
    something; I doubt that G,g with diagonal stroke can be treated as
    font variants of U+01E4, U+01E5).

    Is this sufficient evidence for encoding the missing ones?
    (As I have not any special knowledge of Latvian, I don't consider me
    qualified to write a proposal).

    - Karl

    (1) Faulmann, Carl, Das Buch der Schrift. Wien 1880
        Reprint Nördlingen 1985, ISBN 392156851X
    (2) Allen, C. G., A Manual of European Languages for Librarians.
        Londen & New York 1981, ISBN 0-85935-028-2

    Faulmann_p231.png
    Allen_p595.png

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