[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/27/2003 09:38:15 AM: > Having said that, one would expect a good deal of research to be done > before approaching these. How many languages were they used for? What > sounds do they represent? How do modern scholars producing critical > editions present them? (If they use digit 4, I would consider that to > be a fault in the character set or font, and, in my opinion, a Latin > letter should be added, because the quatrillo is not a quatro.) Do > they appear in casing pairs? On the face of it tz looks like a > ligature of t and z.
I can understand the necessity of these questions except for the first two. Why would it be needed for encoding to know just what languages / phonemes these pertained to? Of course, if this info is available, it's nice to have it. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
