Re: Gwoyeu Romatzyh marking the optional neutral tone

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Jul 13 2009 - 19:34:17 CDT

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    On 7/13/2009 3:41 PM, Charlie Ruland wrote:
    > ***** Original Message/原始郵件 *****
    > From/寄件者: Leo Broukhis <leob@mailcom.com>
    > Subject/主旨: Re: Gwoyeu Romatzyh marking the optional neutral tone
    > To/收件者: Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>
    > Date/日期: Mon Jul 13 2009 23:50:45 GMT+0200
    >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Kenneth Whistler<kenw@sybase.com>
    >> wrote:
    >>> In that case, Unicode has just what the doctor ordered:
    >>>
    >>> U+FF61 HALFWIDTH IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP
    > I beg to differ. What we need is *proportional* ideographic full stop
    > (neither full with nor half width, i.e. not monospaced/fixed width).
    The characteristic of the two ideographic full stops is that they sit in
    the left side of the character cell (at least that's a "typical" glyph
    representation for them, even if variations occur). If that
    one-sidedness is what you object to, then, in my view, you would indeed
    need a new character.
    >
    >>> The main problem with insisting on etymological correctness,
    >>> however, is that U+FF61 may not be as well-represented in
    >>> general purpose fonts as some of the other choices.
    >>
    >> There is also U+FFEE HALFWIDTH WHITE CIRCLE.
    > Which is usually *above* the baseline and therefore doesn’t resemble
    > the character we are looking for at all.
    >
    > Regards,
    > Charlie
    >
    >



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