Re: X-SAMPA confusion (sorry)

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:13:03 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
> > Henrik Theiling wrote:
> >
> > > You're very right that CXS and X-Sampa are almost the same.  A rather
> > > recent adding seems to be the use of ) for an alternative linking
> > > mark additional to _ .  It has no Unicode equivalent, since Unicode
> > > does not know suffixed diacritics.  _ is translatable to Unicode,
> > > but ) is not.
> >
> > What about U+0361?
>
> That's infixed.  The problem is the order: ) is after the two sounds,
> and _ is in between.  But binary diacritics in Unicode are always in
> between, not after the two components.
>
> Changing the order, one could translate both ) and _ to the same
> Unicode.
What you could do is translate not ) but h) or whatever to the Unicode
character for the corresponding diacritic.

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