Re: Unicode yogh?

And Rosta scripsit:

> AFAICS from the glyph inventory display in Word with Lucida, t with
> comma under it is in "private use area" and is followed by g with dot
> under it. I can't fint t-comma or yogh in the Latin Extended B block.
> I can't find either in Arial.
Yes, both those fonts are pre-3.0.
I snarfed the latest version of Code2000 from the net, and it
has nice round-topped glyphs for cap and small yogh.  Earlier versions
lacked it.  Get it from http://home.att.net/~jameskass/CODE2000.ZIP .
If it works for you, send James his US$5.00 .


> > I'm sure it's due to ME that Unicode renamed its old yogh glyph to ezh
> > in 1.1.5 or before, and introduced a separate code position for the
> > proper one in 3.0.0.
>
> Well done to you.
And, don't confuse me and ME.  :-) ME is Michael Everson.

> I was remembering a real tour-de-force of an argument
> for doing this written by Michael Everson (perhaps using arguments
> put by you?)
Not at all and by no means; I had nothing to do with it.

> What I admired about it is that he was Right, but Right
> about a point most people would think far too trivial to be concerned
> with, yet he went to immense pains to state with great clarity and at
> great length the arguments for there being a yogh/ezh distinction.
And not only was he Right, but he was Successful, as in his other argument
that Thorn should sort after Z as a distinct 27th letter of the Latin
alphabet.

Let us all rejoice, for twice has the Right triumphed.

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