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ezh & yogh (was Re: English & "a whole pile of new letters")

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Saturday, June 1, 2002, 12:31
On 1 Jun 02, at 21:42, Tristan McLeay wrote:

> Pedantic point. The IPA doesn't have a yogh. It has an ezh. Yoghs look > like threes. (This was a point of argument with the Unicode people a > while back I think, deciding whether they should encode Yogh separately > to the already-encoded ezh. They did. Yogh is towards the end of the > Latin Extended-B range. I think Michael Everson (or something) had > something about it on his webpage.
http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/ezhyogh.html Someone once said something along the lines that if your con(lang/culture) had enough detail to be able to generate an argument like that, you know you've really fleshed out all the details! Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>