From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 12:17:22 CDT
At 17:05 -0400 2008-05-05, William J Poser wrote:
>In the proposal for the addition of characters to the
>Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics dated 2008-04-12
>(N3437, L2/08-149), several characters have names that inexplicably
>include "Carrier". These are:
>
>U+AAF5 Canadian Syllabics Carrier GU
>U+AAF8 Canadian Syllabics Carrier JAI
>U+AAFA Canadian Syllabics Carrier LAI
>
>None of these characters is or has been used for Carrier.
That does not matter. The point is to identify the letters
unambiguously, and these are members of a class of letters which are
identified by the string CARRIER in their name. That is, there is a
class of CARRIER G-, CARRIER J-, and CARRIER L- letters to which
these belong even if not used in the Carrier language.
>Carrier writes /Cai/ as Ca-i. Moreover,
>the name "Canadian Syllabics Carrier GU" is already
>asigned to U+15EF.
I hadn't time to check everything, but it's a preliminary draft.
>It looks like these three names reflect somebody's notes on the
>Carrier characters that they resemble.
It's a preliminary draft. Thank you for your feedback.
-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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