On 12 Sep 2013, at 09:07, Julian Bradfield <jcb+unicode_at_inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 2013-09-11, Whistler, Ken <ken.whistler_at_sap.com> wrote:
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> [ lots ]
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> Thank you for that explanation!
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>> Draft additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (4th edition) (WG2 N4459) http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13151-n4459.pdf
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> Interesting. I see that disunification of the remaining IPA greek letters is proceeding by stealth -
No, Julian. It's by design. Only theta remains.
> we have latin chi thanks to German dialectologists, and latin beta thanks to Gabonese. My question is,
> why should they not be used for IPA ?
I think they should. I will be taking this up with the Association.
> Now all we need is latin theta and latin upsilon (proper one, rather than the bizarrely namedʊ) and we're done!
No, just theta. The bizarrely-names Latin ʊ is already in use by the Association.
See also http://evertype.com/blog/blog/2010/07/23/latin-and-greek-a-problem-for-the-ipa/ as well as http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.ie/2010/07/disunification-1.html and http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.ie/2010/07/disunification-2.html
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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