Re: [m17n-list] [PATCH][SUGGESTION] Add some letters with dot below

[Iori YONEJI]

Hi all,

Thanks for all your replies.

>> In article <address@hidden>, bd satish <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Since you mentioned Sanskrit, have you considered using IAST? There is
>>> already "sa-iast.mim" that contains all the relevant diacritics that
>>> you've proposed. Sorry to say, I'm of the opinion that modifying
>>> "latn-post.mim" is redundant.

Many thanks to let me know about it, I didn't notice that one.

>> 2014-04-22 15:05 GMT+03:00 K. Handa <address@hidden>:
>> Are there anyone who know the usage of those characters?

Yes, I also know some letters with dots below appear in Arabic Transliteration.
And unfortunately, there are many way of Romanization of Arabic who
use different kinds of character sets. One use some letters with
cedillas, others use some letters with dots below, and others uses
some letters with LINEs below.

Wikipedia says at least group of letters with cedillas is used by some
languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9E

So I think it's the point, how many languages the letters is used by
to be worth to be added to the dictionary? I notice there are many
strange letters used by just one or two languages. (Probably just by
one is not acceptable)

>> How about these?
>>   ("R." "Ṛ")   ("r." "ṛ")
>>   ("r.." "r.")   ("r.." "r.")
I thought it was good idea, but we have had "L." sequence already.
So my choices were adding "r." and "r..", and let "L." as irregular,
or adding them in same non-self-evident sequences. I choose latter
one, but I want to know your opinions.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:31 PM, bd satish <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A quick search on Wikipedia shows they they are also used in many
> other cases, like transliteration of Afro-asiatic languages (like
> Arabic-based), not just Sanskrit:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B8%8C
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B9%9A
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B8%B6
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B8%8C
>
> Probably their principal use is for Sanskrit transliteration, but
> certainly not limited to that. In that case, I see no problem in
> adding to latin*.mim
>
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Satish
>
>
>
> 2014-04-22 15:05 GMT+03:00 K. Handa <address@hidden>:
>> In article <address@hidden>, bd satish <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Since you mentioned Sanskrit, have you considered using IAST? There is
>>> already "sa-iast.mim" that contains all the relevant diacritics that
>>> you've proposed. Sorry to say, I'm of the opinion that modifying
>>> "latn-post.mim" is redundant.
>>
>> Are those "LATIN CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER * WITH DOT BELOW"
>> characters used only for Sanskrit?  If not, it is worth
>> adding them to latin-post.mim and latin-pre.mim.  And, even
>> if they are, adding them to latin-post.mim is not redundant
>> because of different key sequences.
>>
>> Are there anyone who know the usage of those characters?
>>
>> ---
>> Kenichi Handa
>> address@hidden