Re: Ogoneking the Consonants

John Cowan wrote:

>Kristian Jensen wrote:
>> Are there any natlang orthographies that use the ogonek
>> diacritic with consonants?
>
>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).
Yeah, I figured that out myself. But I was thinking that
there are probably some orthographies out there of little
known languages that has used ogoneks with consonants. I
have seen orthographies of some Amerindian languages
with some unusual combinations for diacritics --
combinations that are not encoded in Unicode as precomposed
characters.

>Unicode does, of course, have the productive COMBINING
>OGONEK character which allows ogonek to be attached to
>any base character, including non-Latin ones.
>How good this will look depends on your font.
For my purposes, it looks great on Thryomanes!

>> BTW, how do you represent the ogonek in ASCII?
>
>A fine question.
What about using the comma <,>? E.g., <a,>, <e,>, <i,>,
<o,>, <u,>. I'm just guessing of course. Don't we have
a resident Polish person who can answer this question?

-kristian- 8)