Re: Latin-alphabet transcription systems
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Monday, February 2, 2004, 13:41 |
Benct Philip Jonsson scripsit:
> Slavicists use 'ezh' (the IPA [Z] character for /dz/,
> the same with haczek for /dZ/ and with acute for /dz\/.
> Of course the acute is used similarly on _c s z_, and I
> must say I always found these usages neat. Unfortunately
> Unicode doesn't seem to have precomposed glyphs for any of
> these, probably because they are only used by scholars and
> not in any national orthography.
It's true that there's no precomposed ezh with acute, but EZH WITH CARON
is at U+01EE (capital) and U+01EF (small), and is used in the orthography
of Skolt Sami.
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