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:
> Ê Ê ï ï ï ï ï ï¤ ï¥ ï¦ ï§ ï¨
> ï© ïª ï« ï¬ ï ï® ï¯
ï° ï± ï² ï³ ïµ ï¶ ï· ï¸ ï¹ ïº ï» ï¼
ï½ ï¾ ï ï ï
> ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï
> ï ï ï ï ï ï ï
ï
>
>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
>
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