Re: OT: Unicode 5.0

Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

> Hi!
>
> "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
> > On 1/10/06, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> > > In Swedish, where _å_ comes from, it's [O] or [o:].
> >
> > RIght.  'Cause |o| represents [u].   What does |u| represent? :)
>
> But sometimes, |o| is [o:], too, I think.  It's polymorphic. :-)
> (Or call it ambiguous.)
Quite true. |o| can represent all of [u:] [U] [o:] [O].

There's a nice quadruplet _håv_ "landing net" vs [ho:v] _hov_ [ho:v] "court" vs
_hov_ [hu:v] "hoof" vs _huv_ [h8\:v] "hood".

> |u| represents [u\:] and maybe [8] IIRC.
[8\:] and [8] in the commonest pronunciation, tho I have [u\:], [8].

                                                       Andreas