An older Sami alphabet – unencoded characters?
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Andreas Stötzner
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in Type History
I came across this find on the Sami wikipedia site. Without having digged into details yet, I’m under the impression that it contains some apparently unencoded characters.
Any insights?
Any insights?
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The barred C/c would be a candidate, I think. And I would argue for the one that looks like Cyrillic soft sign as a separate Latin character. The others are encoded or composable with combining marks.
[Barred C/c is technically composable with combining overstrike, but Unicode a few years ago decided that such entities should be atomically encoded.]
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Such entities should be atomically encoded.
Didn't Reed Richards say that to the Thing once? If he didn't, he should have.
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Barred C/c are already encoded in Latin Extended D (A972/A793).0
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<blockquote>Some of these are not relevant for written Sami today.</blockquote>
Yes. But historical orthographies also need to be encoded in order to facilitate study and scholarly publishing.
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thank you Igor and John. But still, I guess this alphabet is not covered yet by encoding entirely. Would need more time …
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