On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Whistler, Ken wrote:
> Basically, everything you need to know can be culled from the relevant
> UnicodeData.txt entries:
>
> 01B2;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V WITH HOOK;Lu;0;L;N;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER
> SCRIPT V;;;028B;
> 028B;LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH HOOK;Ll;0;L;;;
Julian,
> > 028A is ʊ LATIN SMALL LETTER UPSILON
> > 028B is ʋ LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH HOOK
> >
> > These are used for different sounds. I'm not sure that either name is
> particularly bizarre.
>
> I know what they *mean*.
> The name "V WITH HOOK" is strange because there is no hook in ʋ, in
>
On 2013-09-12, Michael Everson wrote:
> Further clarification on this point was published in
> http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4296.pdf
Thanks, that rather more than answers everything...
>> Somehow I hadn't noticed that ʋ was there - and also bizarrely named, since
>> as PSG observes,
On 12 Sep 2013, at 11:04, Julian Bradfield wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Then we have the
On 2013-09-12, Michael Everson wrote:
> On 12 Sep 2013, at 09:07, Julian Bradfield wrote:
>> Interesting. I see that disunification of the remaining IPA greek letters is
>> proceeding by stealth -
>
> No, Julian. It's by design. Only theta remains.
Hm, that's n
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