From: John W Kennedy (jwkenne@attglobal.net)
Date: Fri Jul 17 2009 - 14:18:59 CDT
On Jul 17, 2009, at 3:13 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2009, at 2:16 PM, António MARTINS-Tuválkin wrote:
>> At < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceirt >, it is said that the Ogham
>> letter Ceirt ("ᚊ", U+168A OGHAM LETTER CEIRT) is «transcribed as
>> Q»,
>> the latter marked up with HTML tag "SMALL". I’m therefore surprised
>> not to find a Latin letter small capital Q in Unicode, among so many
>> other such characters
>> ("ɢɪɴɶʀʁʏʙʛʜʟᴀᴁᴃᴄᴅᴆᴇᴊᴋᴌᴍᴎᴏᴐᴕᴘᴙᴚᴛᴜᴠᴡᴢᴣ
>> "). Irish
>> issues are surely not overlooked by the character encoding
>> experts. ;-)
>
> The SMALL tag is merely an artifact of the typesetting of that
> particular sentence in Wikipedia, not a distinction in standard
> Latin transcription of Ogham. Gaelic is not Klingon.
>
> --
> John W Kennedy
> "The pathetic hope that the White House will turn a Caligula into a
> Marcus Aurelius is as naïve as the fear that ultimate power
> inevitably corrupts."
> -- James D. Barber (1930-2004)
>
>
>
-- John W Kennedy "When a man contemplates forcing his own convictions down another man's throat, he is contemplating both an unchristian act and an act of treason to the United States." -- Joy Davidman, "Smoke on the Mountain"
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