Re: A funny linguistic subway experience + some questions about

This character is already in unicode, it is an archaic form of sampi
John Cowan wrote:
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>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?
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>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.)
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>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:
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>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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