From: Karl Pentzlin (karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 18:35:26 CST
Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 um 00:41 schrieb Kenneth Whistler:
KW> Karl Pentzlin kakimasita:
kakimasita ??
KW> So do I. Could one of you suggest appropriate wording for
KW> a short (preferably one-line) annotation for U+0329 indicating that
KW> the whether or not the glyph for U+0329 attaches to the
KW> bottom of base letters is a matter of font design and/or
KW> local preference?
[after: · Yoruba]
· German dialect writing
· The lenght, attachment to the base character or slanting on use with
italic fonts depends on local preference
KW> For the record, I agree with Michael and James about the
KW> ogonek, as well.
Here, I still not stay convinced. Look at:
http://www.sprachatlas.phil.uni-erlangen.de/materialien/Teuthonista_Handbuch.pdf
(German), where you find hooks to denote openness of vowels (like the
one contained in my draft proposal) which are definitely distinct from ogonek.
As far as I know now, these hooks are the ones related with the one proposed
in my draft.
I deliberately decided not to refer to Teuthonista in my proposal
draft, but this maybe was wrong.
Teuthonista is used by some universities in Southern Germany. The
users I have contacted are happy with their legacy 8-bit encodings.
Making a proposal to encode Teuthonista would probably rise
interesting discussions, as it would add Tibetan-like stacking to the
Latin script (unless you encode all possible vertical combinations as
single characters, as the legacy 8-bit encodings do).
(Sorry, I cannot continue the discussion at the moment. It is 1:00 AM
here now, and today I will leave for a two week vacation without
knowing whether I have Internet access there.)
- Karl Pentzlin
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