Re: Igbo [ig] exemplar characters set should not have ẹ

[Lorna Evans via CLDR-Users]

FYI U+1EB9 is not listed for Igbo in Hartell's "Alphabets of Africa" either.

On 11/14/2018 12:54 PM, Mark Davis ☕️ via CLDR-Users wrote:
> We are planning to move to Jira, which should take care of the spam 
> issues.
>
> The question is whether ẹ U+1EB9 was used historically or is used 
> special circumstances in Igbo (eg foreign words, dialects, etc); in 
> either of those cases it should be moved to "aux".
>
> Mark
> //
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:21 AM Denis Jacquerye via CLDR-Users 
> <cldr-users at unicode.org <mailto:cldr-users at unicode.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I’m posting this here since the spambot refuses to let me open new
>     issues on the Bug Tracking site.
>
>     ẹ U+1EB9 doesn’t seem to be used in Igbo, yet it is listed in the
>     CLDR Igbo [ig] locale default exemplar characters set.
>     It cannot be found in:
>     - Igbo Wikipedia site
>     - BBC Igbo site
>     - Wikipedia Igbo Language article
>     - Kay Williamson, /Dictionary of Ọ̀nị̀chà Igbo/, 2006
>     - Yvonne C. Mbanefo, /Okowaokwu Igbo Umuaka : Igbo Dictionary for
>     Children/, 2016
>     - Windows Igbo keyboard layout
>
>       * I haven’t checked Ayo Bamgbose, Orthographies of Nigerian
>         languages: manual I, Lagos, Federal Ministry of Education,
>         National Language Centre, 1982.
>
>
>     ẹ U+1EB9 should be removed from the Igbo [ig] default exemplar
>     characters set
>     Cheers,
>     -- 
>     Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
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