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Re: Vowels in Finlaesk

From:T. A. McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 8:35
taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> * 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.
It was included late, and it's included in Phonetic Extensions, which AFAIK includes only characters primarily used in non-IPA 20th century phonetic notations (e.g. many are from the Uralic alphabet, some (slashed th) are used by English dictionaries. I have looked and not found the source of the character, but perhaps I am not looking hard enough. (When I created the Føtisk alphabet, I don't think I was aware that it was included in Unicode. It may not have been: It might have been included in 4.1 (a large number of phonetic symbols were added at that stage), and I might have started Føtisk before 2005.) -- Tristan.