Addison Phillips <addison at yahoo dash inc dot com> wrote:
Frank Ellermann wrote:/, //, and ! are letters representing various clicks in languages of South Africa and Namibia.Is that ! related to u+01C3 ? Then the others might be u+01C0..u+10C2.Exactly so. The Unicode characters represent the specific "click" characters from those languages and are distinct from the ASCII punctuation commonly used to transcribe those languages in the Latin script.
I suppose it's not too early to point out that I would be opposed to any nascent plans to "improve" on the characters used in ISO 639-3, by changing the ASCII slashes and bangs to "real" Unicode click letters. We just went through that with apostrophes and the battle was bloody. Applications are welcome to change these to the "correct" characters for display.
-- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
Note Well: Messages sent to this mailing list are the opinions of the senders and do not imply endorsement by the IETF.