Philippe Verdy wrote:

> I maintain that if you remove the glyph shown for latin letter oi
> (considered only as informative and not mandatory in any of its aspects),
> and just keep its normative name, then many people will think that the
> encoded character really represents a letter named or pronounced "oi".
Which
> is completely wrong in our case. But would allow people to use the
assigned
> code point to represent the L-shaped character "i with lower-right
hook"...

Not a good idea: the Nogai and Khakass languages appear to have used both
gha/oi and "i with lower right hook" according to
http://www.writingsystems.net/languages/nogai/nogailatin.htm and
http://www.writingsystems.net/languages/khakass/khakasslatin.htm .

Charles Cox



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