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Re: Questions about Hungarian

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Sunday, May 2, 2004, 17:07
On Sun, 02 May 2004 12:14:21 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

> vehke scripsit: > >> Aah, FUPA: Finno-Ugric Transcription Alphabet. There's a chart in the >> appendices of a certain book about Sámi in my possession. I could >> probably throw it through the scanner if you'd like. The net seems to be >> awfully silent on FUPA. :| > > Soon coming to Unicode, complete with its wondrous upside-down > letterforms.
The characters at U+1D00 are what I was actually asking about, and they go by the name "UPA" rather than "FUPA". It has letterforms even more exotic than mere upside-down, such as turned 90 degrees. Also, how do you tell a {small-cap o} from a lowercase {o}? How do you tell a {small-cap P} from a {small-cap rho}? Paul