Re: Two questions about Esperanto

Jean-Fran?ois COLSON scripsit:

> In unicode there's a precombined character for z with circumflex:
> ??? (U+1E90 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CIRCUMFLEX)
>
> ??? (U+1E91 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CIRCUMFLEX)
>
> Does someone know which language(s) use(s) that letter? That's not Esperanto
> anyway.
Maybe none.  This is one of those characters of doubtful utility that
Unicode picked up as a result of the merger with the first draft (which
was non-Unicode-compatible) of ISO 10646.  Probably someone put it on
a list a long time ago and nobody remembers the exact reason any more;
it could have been a simple mistake ("Esperanto uses those consonants
with circumflexes, doesn't it?") or even a confusion with z-caron.

The other precomposed characters with circumflex are a, e, i, o, u
(multiple languages); c, g, h, j, s (Esperanto); w, y (Welsh).

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