Encoding of Teuthonista: Diacritics in parentheses

From: Karl Pentzlin (karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de)
Date: Thu Oct 30 2008 - 14:39:54 CST

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    When it comes to encoding on Teuthonista:
    http://www.sprachatlas.phil.uni-erlangen.de/materialien/Teuthonista_Handbuch.pdf
    there are besides other interesting things) diacritical marks in
    parentheses.
    See the attached examples:
     diacriticsinparens.png from the link above
     diacriticsinparens2.png from [1], p.80

    Is my assumption correct that it is not advisable to propose
    two characters
      COMBINING PAIR OF SUBSCRIPT PARENTHESES
      COMBINING PAIR OF SUPERSCRIPT PARENTHESES
    as this would lead to problems regarding their combining class
    assignment?

    Thus, is it correct to advise to encode the possible combinations
    as single characters, like
      COMBINING DIAERESIS IN PARENTHESES
      COMBINING DOUBLE STRAIGHT HOOK (or whatever) BELOW IN PARENTHESES
    and so on?
    This would be simpler to implement anyway.

    I will participate next week (2008-11-05) a workshop "Transcription
    systems and UNICODE" in Vienna (see the announcement on this mailing
    list, and http://www.oeaw.ac.at/dinamlex/programm20081105.pdf ).
    There, the encoding of Teuthonista will be discussed.
    Thus, I appreciate any hints which will enable me to make precise
    statements instead of just speculating.

    Thank you.

    - Karl Pentzlin

     [1] Hotzenköcherle, Rudolf: Einführung in den Sprachatlas der
         Deutschen Schweiz.
         Volume B: Fragebuch - Transkriptionsschlüssel - Aufnahmeprotokolle
         Bern, 1962

    diacritsinparens.png
    diacritsinparens2.png

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