Re: IPA block in Unicode

----- Original Message -----
From: "Herman Miller" <hmiller@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 5:25 AM
Subject: Re: IPA block in Unicode


> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
>> Ah!  Ok, I recognised the trivial ones then.  Still, for what the
>> heck is a db digraph or a qp digraph used? %-|
>
> Labiodental stops.
>
>
Doulos SIL Regular is not really up-to-date: the db and qp digraphs are
located at U+F240 and U+F241 respectively (in the private use area), while
Unicode placed them at U+0238 and U+0239. The Unicode standard also adds
"used in Africanist linguistics." But I don't know in which languages they
are used, and if they are used in languages out of Africa.
They're not IPA characters, are they?
How would you write a labiodental stop in IPA?

JF