Re: Alphabet comparison table for Latin/Greek/Cyrillic

Hi!

Jean-François Colson writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > Hi!
> > To help select letters for an Latin/Greek/Cyrillic (LGC) based
> > alphabet for a conlang, I made a table for comparison.  The goal is to
> > include all LGC Unicode characters from LGC without diacritics, hooks,
> > strokes, etc., i.e. only the basic forms, in a single table for easy
> > comparison of the glyph forms in order to more easily pick a subset
> > for the conlang.
> > I thought you might find it helpful, so here it is:
> > http://www.kunstsprachen.de/lgc.html
>
> Just a few comments:
>
> The Greek delta and the Cyrillic be are on the same line.
Yes.  Because the lower case looks the same in many fonts.  I'll add a
note for clarity.  BTW, that's why I give the B WITH TOPBAR as an
alternative...

> You've included the B with topbar but not the D with topbar.
...and also D WITH TOPBAR is not in the basic list: it does not look
like any Greek or Cyrillic character, but capital B WITH TOPBAR does
(like Cyrillic B).

D WITH TOPBAR will be in the extensions section which is currently
empty (my testing version already lists it).  The list is not complete
yet, of course.

> The uppercase for the small cap R is U+01A6 latin letter yr.
Well, I do not claim that I list the ultimate alternatives for
resolving conflicts.  My goal was not to give some alternatives -- you
decide what you chose.  I found the normal upper case R quite feasible
if you don't have the YR like Old Norse.

Anyway, yes, probably it is good to stick to the official Unicode
casing pairs and add a note when I think that one may very well use a
different casing convention.  So I will probably put YR on a separate
line together with it's normal uppercase and add a note that you might
choose standard capital R if you only use lower case YR to resolve a
conflice with lower case cyrillic G.

Thanks for your detailed reading! :-)

**Henrik