From: Christoph Burgmer (cburgmer@ira.uka.de)
Date: Tue Jul 14 2009 - 03:09:16 CDT
Am Dienstag, 14. Juli 2009 schrieb Asmus Freytag:
> What you have is a typographically the same thing as if you took the
> U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN and moved its circle down from its superscript
> position into a subscript position.
>
> The two characters that come closest are U+02F3 MODIFIER LETTER LOW RING
> and U+302D IDEOGRAPHIC ENTERING TONE MARK.
>
> The latter is a combining mark (intended presumably for ideographs - and
> therefore suspect in terms of whether typical implementations would
> yield correct alignment with Latin letters). However, the placement of
> this character relative to the baseline is close to what the samples
> show - at least in some fonts.
>
> The former may be too low: the sample glyph in the Unicode code charts
> rests entirely below the baseline - depending on the font, even quite
> far below.
>
> A new character,
>
> SUBSCRIPT RING
>
> would be my recommendation
How would we treat letter case as of UTR#21? Even using full stop for the
compulsory neutral tone turns up wrong title case (example in Python):
>>> "bu jy.daw".title()
'Bu Jy.Daw'
Though in my eyes it should be
'Bu Jy.daw'
Would UTR#21 even handle those cases? Would such a character fall into the
"Letter Modifier" class?
Python btw has a buggy implementation for UTR#21, so this example is as far as
you can go.
-Christoph
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