Re: Revised Zharranh page

On Sunday, February 8, 2004, at 09:54  PM, John Cowan wrote:
> Herman Miller scripsit:
>> As far as the actual yogh character, I'm tentatively thinking of using
>> it for glottal stops, mainly because reversed yogh is the obvious
>> choice
>> for /?\/, and /?/ looks like the reverse of /?\/. Plus, it's the only
>> thing that has both a capital and lower case form that looks much
>> like a glottal stop symbol.
>
> True capital and lowercase glottal stop are coming in Unicode 4.1;
> they're
> needed for some Canadian languages.  However, it's still uncertain
> whether
> the current glottal stop character, which looks capital but is
> currently
> called lower case, will be identified with either or both of these.
> So we may add just one character or a new casing pair.
> --
> John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.reutershealth.com
> www.ccil.org/~cowan

For one of my Hebrew transliterations schemes, (even though Hebrew has
no upper/lower case distinctions) I use the IPA /O/ as the lower case
glottal stop, and the regular |?|-looking glottal stop symbol as the
capital form.


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