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Figure out PUA characters that look like accents #4

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rimas-kudelis opened this issue Sep 9, 2024 · 1 comment
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Figure out PUA characters that look like accents #4

rimas-kudelis opened this issue Sep 9, 2024 · 1 comment

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There are also interesting glyphs assigned to positions U+EFB0-U+EFB5 and U+F004-U+F005. I'll probably have to ask Fotonija people about what they mean and what they were used for.

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I think I have it figured out with the help of some googling and a book that I have:

Glyph Notes
U+EFB0
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Palemonas (page 33):
U+E0C7
DAUGISKAITOS SU UMLIAUTU ŽENKLAS
Approx. translation: PLURAL WITH UMLAUT SIGN
New Athena Unicode (page 11):
U+EC3C or
U+2012 U+0308
contracted biceps = two dots over macron
U+EFB1
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Palemonas (page 36):
U+E0CC
KIRČIUOTAS ILGASIS SKIEMUO
Approx. translation: STRESSED METRICAL LONG
U+EFB2
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Potentially same as:
U+23D3
METRICAL SHORT OVER LONG
U+EFB3
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Palemonas (page 33):
U+E0C8
BRŪKŠNYS SU TAŠKU
Approx. translation: MINUS DOT
Listed next to U+2238 DOT MINUS, and looks like its mirrored sibling.
U+EFB4
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Palemonas (page 36):
E0C9
KIRČIUOTA MORA
Approx. translation: STRESSED METRICAL BREVE
U+EFB5
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Identical to U+21E7 UPWARDS WHITE ARROW

I think I'm going to remove the characters above.

  • In case of U+EFB0, it's still unclear to me whether the sign was supposed to be linguistic or mathematical. Plus, both Palemonas and NAU have the two dots much closer to the line, so it's potentially not even supposed to be the same character.
  • In case of U+EFB1, U+EFB2, and U+EFB4, these characters don't compliment an existing set, because Jonova has no METRICAL characters that are part of Unicode, so providing only a few supplemental nonstandard ones doesn't seem logical to me.
  • U+EFB3 complements an existing character but it's unclear why this complement has no official Unicode assignment if it's actually useful.
  • U+EFB5 is just a duplicate of U+21E7. I see no reason to keep it.

As for U+F004 and U+F005, these are actually used as components of Latvian letters with cedillas. The glyphs likely should stay, but I'm not so sure regarding their code assignments – I suspect they might be just an artifact of some limitations back in the day. I've already renamed these glyphs to sign.cedilla.commabelow and sign.cedilla.commaturnedabove and should probably turn them into alt forms of U+00B8 CEDILLA and free up the PUA codepoints.

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