On the upcoming LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Q
Leonardo Boiko
leoboiko at gmail.com
Sun Dec 25 14:03:48 CST 2016
Agreed with Yifán Wáng... But I wonder about the need for the character in
the first place. Are we going to add a full small-caps set, too, given its
use in morphological glosses? Isn't it enough to use a regular 'Q' in
plain-text, and style to small caps in rich text?
I can see the rationale for mathematical bold, given that a regular-weight
plain-text character would stand for a different thing in mathematical
formulæ. But there's no way a capital Q would ever be confused as anything
other than the phoneme, in a Japanese phonological transcription.
2016/12/25 17:56 "Yifán Wáng" <747.neutron at gmail.com>:
Please excuse my serial posting.
I recently noticed the subhead given to the LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL
Q in the following document (at A7AF) is "Letter for representation of
morpheme in Japanese".
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16381-n4778r-pdam1-2-charts.pdf
However, to my knowledge, the letter is required for describing a
"phoneme" of Japanese that isn't tied to specific "morphemes" (~
"words"). I have contacted the original writer of the proposal:
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15241-small-cap-q.pdf
and he agrees with me in this regard.
Thus I suppose "Letter for Japanese phonology" would be more desired a
heading for this character, though subheads are not normative. What
are your thoughts?
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