LINGUIST List 15.1657

Wed May 26 2004

FYI: "Slashed C"; Language May 2004 Book Notice List

Editor for this issue: Anne Clarke <annelinguistlist.org>

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1. Deborah Anderson, Feedback Needed on "Slashed C" and Unicode
2. Stanley Dubinsky, Language: May 2004 Book Notice List

Feedback is requested from linguists regarding the encoding of LATIN
SMALL LETTER C WITH STROKE as a phonetic symbol (Unicode Public Review
Issue #35).

Description: At the February 2004 meeting of the Unicode Technical
Committee, a proposal was considered to encode the phonetic symbol
LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH STROKE. Some reservation was expressed on
the part of some committee members, however, due to potential legacy
encoding issues. A decision was made to give tentative approval of
this character, but to prepare a public review issue to elicit
feedback on the pros and cons of encoding this character.

The document, written by Peter Constable, is located at:
http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-35.pdf .

Please send feedback via the online form:
http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html or you can send an email message
to me at dwanderssocrates.berkeley.edu for forwarding. Deadline for
comments **8 June 2004**.

This is part of an effort to solicit feedback from users of the
Slashed C. If you have questions, please contact the proposal author,
Peter Constable (peterconmicrosoft.com) or Deborah Anderson
(dwanderssocrates.berkeley.edu).

Deborah Anderson
Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics
UC Berkeley
Email: dwanderssocrates.berkeley.edu
or dwanderspacbell.net 

The Book Notice list for Language is housed at the USC Linguistics
Program website:

http://www.cla.sc.edu/LING/index.html

A link to Language Book Reviews is at the bottom of the program's
index page. From the Language Book Reviews page you will find a link
to the MAY 2004 Book Notice list. Requests for books should be
made through the on-line request form also found on that page.

Stan Dubinsky
Book Review Editor, Language

Stanley Dubinsky
Director
Linguistics Program
U of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

e-mail: dubinskysc.edu
phone: 803-777-2063
phax: 803-777-7514
http://www.cla.sc.edu/LING/index.html