does anybody know about these accidentals?
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Fri Jul 26 02:43:27 CDT 2024
> Since the character is already encoded as a code point, and Unicode
> never removes any one already there, the character encoding question
> of this character is already settled.
Yes, but the shown glyph shape is disputable – or not, depending on
the point of view. After some thinking I now believe that they
shouldn't be changed. However, the description should be improved.
The two characters
1D132 MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE SHARP
1D133 MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE FLAT
are actually not accidentals but *pitch modifiers*: they are *added*
left to an accidental (or a note), indicating that the given pitch has
to be raised or lowered by a quarter tone. This usage is shown in the
provided scans.
I've just sent an error report via
https://corp.unicode.org/reporting/error.html
suggesting to move these two characters out of the `@ accidentals`
section into a new one, `@ Pitch modifiers` (to use the notation from
`NamesList.txt`).
Werner
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