Draft proposal: Old Polish nasal vowel letter

[Michael Everson]

LATIN LETTER OLD POLISH O will do fine. 

Michael Everson
http://evertype.com

> On 10 Jan 2021, at 04:02, Adam Twardoch (Lists) via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
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> I appreciate you formulating the proposal. 
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> The naming of the proposed characters "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OLD POLISH NASAL VOWEL" and "LATIN SMALL LETTER OLD POLISH NASAL VOWEL" is weird. 
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> There seems not to be a single Unicode letter from the Latin script that would include the functional category "vowel" in its name. And there seems not to be a single Unicode letter from the Latin script that refers to a particular language. 
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> The naming of Unicode characters from the Latin script tends to be visually descriptive. So the proposal goes against established Unicode practice. 
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> But other than that, I think the proposal is worthwhile. The visual modification done to get the “horned O”, as this letter was sometimes called, was very different from the Danish practice, and there was quite some variance. However, this variance was very different from that of the Danish practice. I don’t think this letter can be decomposed into an O followed by some existing diacritical mark. 
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> I think these letters should be added to Unicode, but a more suitable name should be chosen. 
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> Best,
> Adam