On 29 Mar 2015, at 23:29, Garth Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > Right, I was just pointing out that Turkish music is a potential > complication if changing the glyph for MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE > FLAT. > > Here's how I understand it: > Arabic music - uses the flat-with-stroke exclusively as a quarter tone flat > Western quarter tone music - uses the reversed flat and > flat-with-stroke interchangeably as a quarter tone flat, but the > reversed flat is more common > Turkish music - uses both the reversed flat and flat-with-stroke > contrastively (neither, strictly speaking, as a quarter tone flat > since quarter tones do not exist in Turkish music)
That’s quite some variety. There are also the three-quarter flat and sharp in Western music to consider. I’ll be able to dig into this after I get back to Ireland from Sweden on Friday. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
