Re: Why blackletter letters?

From: Markus Scherer <markus.icu_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:55:43 -0700

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Gerrit Ansmann <gansmann_at_uni-bonn.de>wrote:

> I do not know much about Greek, Coptic and Georgian, but this seems to me
> that with the same reasoning, you would have to encode Latin small caps
> separately just because some IPA characters (ʙʜʏʀɴɢɪ) are essentially small
> caps.
>

For use in IPA etc., there are in fact small caps letters:
http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%5B%3Aname%3D%2FSMALL+CAPITAL%2F%3A%5D&g=

For small caps as a style, you would use markup.

markus
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