Re: IPA Null Consonant

Philippe Verdy wrote on 05/27/2003 11:50:39 AM:

> Don't speak about overwriting sequences using Backspace in Unicode!

I wasn't; I was talking about typewriters, though the comparable thing was
done in the era of Wordstar and daisy wheel / dot matrix printers.


> If you want an overriding slash, use now the COMBINING STROKE
> diacritic defined in Unicode (look in the U+3XX page, I can't
> remember the codepoint exactly but this should be U+0337 for the
> short one normally used on small letters, or U+0338 for the long one
> normally used on capital letters)...

Personally, I'd rather those combining overlays dried up and faded away.


> I note that there's another interesting diacritic which looks nearly
> the same as what you could use: U+20E0 (A combining  enclosing
> circle with a reverse stroke) and that can be used as a spacing
> character by encoding it after a SPACE (U+0020), but cannot be
> confused with an O letter with stroke...

Is this a contest to see who can come up with the worst solution?



- Peter


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