Re: Vowels in Finlaesk

* T. A. McLeay said on 2007-09-04 08:01:44 +0200
> Philip Newton wrote:
> > What's ue-ligature's Unicode codepoint? I can't remember
> > coming across that one.
>
> LATIN SMALL LETTER UE U+1D6B (in Phonetic Extensions, down the
> back), it has no capital counterpart.
>
> I'm not sure what use it has that it's been included in
> Unicode.
In the beginning, unicode included all symbols that occurred in
already existing charsets. Lately there's been a rush to add
symbols that have never had a charset, like for instance every
single hanji-character that has ever existed, cuneiform,
phaistos disk...

So: if {ue} was included early, it doesn't need to be useful in
any way, it's just there to ensure that you can convert between
unicode and older charsets without ambiguity. If it is a late
inclusion it is quite likely that it was used in medieval
manuscripts, as plenty of variants and scribe's abbreviations
are making it in now.


t.

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