Re: Yogh (was Re: y sound)

David Starner gir'h:


> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 01:42:41PM +0300, Isaac Penzev wrote:
> > Acc. to Esa Anttikoski (unf., this page is avalibale only in Ru., I hope
> > you'll be able to figure out the langs names):
> >
> > Буквы языков народов ссии, не поддерживаемые
> > стандартом Unicode 3.2
> > (not supported by Unicode)
>
> Most of these are supported by Unicode. You can add arbitrary macrons
> and dots and rings to any character.
As you may see from the quotation, that was not my opinion, by those of Esa
Anttikoski who does great job on providing support to minorities langs of
RF: www.peoples.org.ru
AFAIU, it goes about *precomposed* characters. Most of Cyrillics with
diacritics are presented in Unicode 3.2. Some langs of Siberia and Far East
lack such presentation. And for convenience it is always good to have "one
keystroke - one character" principle.
Btw, combinatory marks make the characters look dash ugly, since letters
have different width.
You may compare precomp. ā and composed ā. Even in this case it differs.
And if I need to put macron over ы or ю (as in Mansi), they look even worse:
ы̅, ю̅. And where to put macron over ё? And to have GHE WITH DESCENDER, EL
WITH HOOK and HA WITH HOOK (all for Nivkh), we definitely need a separate
character.

With all respects,
Yitzik

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