On the upcoming LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Q

[Yifán Wáng]

> This is a character under ballot for Amendment 1 to the 5th edition. It
> isn't part of the repertoire planned for publication as part of Unicode 10.0
> in June.

I see. Thank you for the information.
I'll remember it until Unicode 11's term.


2017-01-12 4:37 GMT+09:00 Ken Whistler <kenwhistler at att.net>:
> This is a character under ballot for Amendment 1 to the 5th edition. It
> isn't part of the repertoire planned for publication as part of Unicode 10.0
> in June.
>
> So if you want to have any impact on the subhead used in the charts for
> A7AF, the correct mechanism now is to get a national body comment added in
> their vote on Amendment 1.
>
> Either that, or just put in tickler in your calendar for February, 201*8*,
> when the beta review for Unicode *11* will be starting, so you can then make
> a suggestion as part of the Unicode beta review period.
>
> Otherwise, these suggestions are just going to end up lost under the pile of
> the subsequent 13 months worth of email on unrelated topics. ;-)
>
> --Ken
>
>
>
> On 12/27/2016 8:44 PM, Yifán Wáng wrote:
>>
>> Now I start to wonder if the description would be "Letter for
>> phonetics and Japanese phonology" or "Letter for scholarly
>> transcription" etc.
>>
>> 2016-12-27 18:54 GMT+09:00 Denis Jacquerye <moyogo at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> For what it’s worth, the small capital q was used as an IPA symbol for a
>>> while. It was used for the Arabic ʻayn as a “consonne roulée gutturale”
>>> in
>>> the 1898 IPA chart (previously noted 3 in the 1894 IPA charts and ᴈ in
>>> some
>>> 1895 IPA charts and later charts) then as a “consonne fricative
>>> bronchiale
>>> sonore” in the 1905 and 1908 IPA charts, and in the notes after the IPA
>>> chart in 1912. It was eventually replaced with the reversed glottal stop
>>> ʕ,
>>> for example in the 1932 IPA chart or later charts.
>>
>>
>