Re: Abkhaz letters

2003-10-24 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2003.10.23, 21:08, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:53 -0700 2003-10-23, Peter Constable wrote: - Reversed sigma -- is it a variant of U+01B7 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EZH? This typeform is used in Ghana, and for that context I concluded that it is a variant of 01B7. But

Re: Abkhaz letters

2003-10-24 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2003.10.23, 23:19, Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the V-shaped letter is something like the Russian close central vowel ? - might be U+0474 which was used in Russian up to about that time, Iz^ica, of course! I mean, it may be something else though, but it is unforgivable that I hadn't

Re: Abkhaz letters

2003-10-24 Thread Peter Kirk
On 24/10/2003 04:27, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote: On 2003.10.23, 23:19, Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the V-shaped letter is something like the Russian close central vowel ? - might be U+0474 which was used in Russian up to about that time, Iz^ica, of course! I mean, it may be

RE: Abkhaz letters

2003-10-24 Thread Peter Constable
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk See also http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/pub/GUTenberg/publicationsPDF/28-29- berdnikovb.pdf, which incidentally mentions at least two Cyrillic letters not in Unicode (top of p.34), the title

Re: Abkhaz letters

2003-10-24 Thread Michael Everson
That character is a variant of the as-yet unencoded CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KU, which is very often otherwise displayed as Q. It is a big q shape. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

Re: Abkhaz letters

2003-10-24 Thread Peter Kirk
On 24/10/2003 11:44, Michael Everson wrote: That character is a variant of the as-yet unencoded CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KU, which is very often otherwise displayed as Q. It is a big q shape. In what other languages is or was it used? Kurdish? Anything else? -- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Abkhaz letters

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Everson
This is extremely interesting (especially that KU) and I will look into it when I get home from the States in early November. At 18:14 +0100 2003-10-22, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote: I was asked (or rather challenged) to transcribe into a web page the writings on the emblem of the Abkhazian

RE: Abkhaz letters

2003-10-23 Thread Peter Constable
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin My doubts refer to: - Reversed sigma -- is it a variant of U+01B7 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EZH? This typeform is used in Ghana, and for that context I concluded that it

RE: Abkhaz letters

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Everson
At 12:53 -0700 2003-10-23, Peter Constable wrote: - Reversed sigma -- is it a variant of U+01B7 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EZH? This typeform is used in Ghana, and for that context I concluded that it is a variant of 01B7. But that is Latin text, not Cyrillic. U+04E0 -- Michael Everson * *

Re: Abkhaz letters

2003-10-23 Thread Peter Kirk
On 23/10/2003 12:25, Michael Everson wrote: This is extremely interesting (especially that KU) and I will look into it when I get home from the States in early November. At 18:14 +0100 2003-10-22, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote: I was asked (or rather challenged) to transcribe into a web