From: Karl Pentzlin (karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de)
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 04:22:36 CST
Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 um 13:59 schrieb Emanuele Saiu:
ES> Apostrophe + acute accent ('´). It isn't codified in Unicode as a diacritic, is it?
ES> It is similar to the double acute accent of Hungarian ő ű, but
ES> the first mark should be an apostrophe (or Greek smooth breathing), not an acute.
ES> Apostrophe plus acute is common in traditional phonetic
ES> transcriptions used in Romance linguistics. ...
At the Vienna workshop yesterday (2008-11-05), it was demonstrated
that side-by-side-placing of diacritics of the same combining class
(e.g. ring above + acute accent) is common in dialect transcription
systems in a productive way, e.g. used in the Obščeslavjanskij
lingvističeskij atlas.
Therefore, a normative mechanism for doing so has to be added to
Unicode. If this could not be accomplished by extending the semantics
of ZWJ for doing so (then, Emanuele Sanciu's example would be encoded
"latin small letter c/g" + "combining comma above" + ZWJ + "combining
acute"), then the introduction of a special "combining mark joiner"
could be a solution.
- Larl Pentzlin
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