Re: A funny linguistic subway experience + some questions about

Raymond Brown wrote:

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> On the other hand, the odd letter | | | used by some of the Asiatic
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> Ionians may well have represented some palatal sound similar to [tS]. And
> who know what zeta variously represented in all the early dialects?
Interesting!  Ought I to propose this letter to the Unicode people for
inclusion?  (The process takes real time, so if it makes sense to encode
it, then starting now is reasonable.)

The basic criterion for including an archaic letter like this is:
do scholars or hobbyists want to include the letter either in their
own documents, or in transcriptions of original documents?  IOW, if it is
solely interesting to palaeographers, then it doesn't belong in Unicode.

The current Unicode Greek letters are:

1) alpha to omega
2) all vowels with all possible breathings and/or accents and/or dialytika
3) math forms: closed beta, open theta, script kappa, ascending phi, closed pi,
        tailed rho, lunate sigma, upsilon with hook
4) kai symbol
5) archaics: stigma, digamma, koppa, sampi
6) letter yot (looks like Roman "j")

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