Reference glyphs of musical accidentals quarter sharp and quarter flat

[Marius Spix]

Hi,

the attachment in my previous message contained a small mistake. I
fixed this in this followup.

Best regards,

Marius



Am Wed, 3 Jan 2024 17:09:14 +0100
schrieb Marius Spix <marius.spix at web.de>:

> Hi,
>
> I just noted that the reference glyphs for
>
> U+1D132 MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE SHARP
>
> and
>
> U+1D133 MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE FLAT
>
> on the code chart are very unusual. In the standard notation, the
> quarter sharp is represented by U+266F with only one downstroke and
> the quarter flat by a mirrored version of U+266D MUSIC FLAT SIGN (or
> as a variant of U+266D with a stroke). Please find the attached image
> for reference.
>
> I had a look at the mailing list and there was already a suggestion by
> Johnny Farraj in 2015, by Markus Scherer in 2018 and by Gavin Jared
> Bala and Kirk Miller in 2023 (request L2/23-276). The letter also
> includes the currently missing characters for three-quarter sharp and
> three-quarter flat, two characters I also see an urgent need for.
>
> Howerver, in contrast to that request, I propose to unify two
> suggested characters with existing ones and change the reference
> glyph instead of encoding a new character instead.
>
> U+1D1ED MUSICAL SYMBOL REVERSED FLAT (requested) = U+1D133 MUSICAL
> SYMBOL QUARTER TONE FLAT (existing)
> U+1D1EB MUSICAL SYMBOL HALF SHARP (requested) = U+1D133 MUSICAL SYMBOL
> QUARTER TONE FLAT (existing)
>
> The stroked variant of the quarter flat (which does not appear in
> the proposal of Gavin Jared Bala and Kirk Miller, but can be found in
> several pieces) could be obtained by combining U+1D132 MUSICAL SYMBOL
> QUARTER TONE SHARP with a variation selector (e. g. U+FE00).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marius

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