LINGUIST List 17.869

Wed Mar 22 2006

Disc: Capital Tresillo, Cuatrillo in Unicode?

Editor for this issue: Ann Sawyer <sawyerlinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Deborah Anderson, Capital Tresillo, Cuatrillo in Unicode?

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Message 1: Capital Tresillo, Cuatrillo in Unicode?
Date: 20-Mar-2006
From: Deborah Anderson <dwandersberkeley.edu>
Subject: Capital Tresillo, Cuatrillo in Unicode?


As the LSA liaison to the Unicode Consortium, I would like to ask the linguistic community for its opinion on the need for uppercase forms of TRESILLO and CUATRILLO for historical materials (specifically for archaic letters used in 16th-century Guatemala to write Mayan languages as Cakchiquel, Quiché, and Tzutuhil).

A document by Michael Everson requesting these uppercase forms is contained at: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/3028.pdf

The above proposal requests a number of characters be added to the international character encoding standard Unicode (and 10646). If approved -- a multi-year process -- the characters will eventually appear in fonts. (Note: The uppercase form of TZ was approved by the Unicode Technical Committee, as an example was provided in the proposal on p. 10. I am querying here specifically about TRESILLO and CUATRILLO.)

If you have material that could benefit from having uppercase forms of TRESILLO and/or CUATRILLO encoded or foresee their encoding as useful in the future, please send me a note stating this (providing any specific information you can). Or, if you feel encoding such a letter is not needed or unnecessary, this response is also useful and a note to this effect would also be appreciated. Email responses are requested no later than 31 March.

With many thanks, Deborah Anderson Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley Script Encoding Initiative linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems