On 12 Sep 2013, at 09:07, Julian Bradfield <jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 2013-09-11, Whistler, Ken <ken.whist...@sap.com> wrote: > > [ lots ] > > Thank you for that explanation! > >> Draft additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (4th edition) (WG2 N4459) >> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13151-n4459.pdf > > 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/
