Re: Proposal to encode three combining diacritical marks for Low German dialect writing

From: James Kass (thunder-bird@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 20:30:31 CST

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    Karl Pentzlin wrote,

    > Do you see an ogonek e.g. in
    > http://www.sprachatlas.phil.uni-erlangen.de/materialien/Teuthonista_Handbuch.pdf
    > (German) ?

    Quoting from http://www.europatastatur.de/dialekt.html

    "Der untergesetzte Haken: den schreibe man
    zweckmäßig als Ogonek, also [´] / [8]"

    and

    "Der untergesetzte Haken: Dessen iota-förmiges Design entstammt
    dem Teuthonista-Lautschriftsystem, das in Unicode nicht enthalten
    ist. Hier kommt das Ogonek zum Einsatz, also [´] / [8]. Möglich wäre
    auch der untergesetze linke Halbkreis [´] / [<], das Ogonek ist aber
    deutlicher und in mehr Schriftarten enthalten. "

    According to Google's translation it looks as though the combining
    ogonek is recommended to represent this character because fonts
    are available, even though the exact iota-shaped glyph isn't directly
    encoded in Unicode.

    So, if there's already an existing practice to represent this thing
    in computer plain text as an ogonek, wouldn't adding a new character
    break existing data?

    Best regards,

    James Kass

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