Re: Ogoneking the Consonants
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 30, 2000, 19:11 |
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At 13:01 26.5.2000 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>No such precomposed characters are encoded in Unicode 3.0
>(which is not quite the same thing, but at least means that
>no language hitherto used *on computers* has needed any
>consonant+ogonek combinations).
I have seen it used as a substitute for IPA retroflex characters. Probably
a hack to save positions on a type-wheel, or to fake them with a type wheel
that didn't have them.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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