Re: IPA Null Consonant

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From: "Andrew C. West" <andrewcwest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <unicode@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 1:18 PM
Subject: IPA Null Consonant


> Can someone advise me how to represent a null consonant in phonetic
> notation using Unicode ?
>
> I have seen a null consonant initial or final variously represented as a
> circle,
> a slashed circle, a zero or a slashed zero in printed sources, but am not
> sure
> what the correct form of the glyph is, or how it should be encoded in
> Unicode.
>
> Neither my copy of the "Principles of the International Phonetic
> Association" or
> the IPA web site (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html) seem to be of
> any help.
>
> Andrew

The Unicode Standard Version 3.0 p165 says:

"Unifications. The IPA symbols are unified as much as possible with other
letters, albeit not with nonletter symbols like U+222B  ∫ INTEGRAL".

So, if you don't find it in the IPA block you should look not for a slashed
circle or slashed zero, but for a slashed letter o.
And indeed, if we look at U+00F8 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE ø, the
book says that it is used in Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and IPA



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