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Re: IPA block in Unicode

From:Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...>
Date:Friday, August 12, 2005, 18:21
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:30:02 +0200, Carsten Becker
<naranoieati@...> wrote:
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>From: "John Vertical" <johnvertical@HOTMAIL.COM ><mailto:johnvertical@...>> >Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 9:14 PM >Subject: IPA block in Unicode > > > Doubtlessly many of you have noticed that the "IPA Extensions" block in > > Unicode has several characters which do not appear in the official IPA. > > These symbols are apparently (mostly) from older versions. So, this > > begs the question: what did they stand for? Here's what I've deduced so > > far; can anyone confirm? > > There are more of them in Doulos SIL which you can obtain at the SIL's > page: > ʆ Ê ïˆŒ          >       
                
>   ï‰ ï‰‹         >       ï‰
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> >This font has seemingly all the IPA letters as superscripts as well. >Maybe they're part of the American Phonetic Alphabet or how it's called? >Note that the letters above and the superscripts are in the user-defined >area. > >The "Sans" font that comes with Fedora and certainly as well with Red >Hat Linux has even more obscure glyphs in. Since I haven't got Linux >available at the moment, I can't tell you which ones. There are more >such glyphs listed in the manual of TIPA for LaTeX. > >Carsten > >-- >Edatamanon le matahanarà benenoea eibenem ena Bahis Tenena, >15-A8-58-6-5-17-B ena Curan Tertanyan. >