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Hyperglot: a database and tools for detecting language support in fonts
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Skolt Sami (sms) #45

Closed meehkal closed 2 years ago

meehkal commented 3 years ago

Modifier letter vertical line (ˈ) is not a letter, strictly speaking. It marks an overlong consonant, e.g. nˈn (as opposed to long nn), but is normally used only for didactic purposes, e.g. in teaching materials.

meehkal commented 3 years ago

Combining dot below (U+0323) is another "didactic mark" in Skolt Sami. It is used with a few vowels to mark an underlying morphophonological property of diphthongs, e.g. uẹ versus ue, but only in teaching materials, dictionaries, etc.

kontur commented 3 years ago

In the base orthography for sje (A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Á Ä Å Đ Ŋ Ŧ a b d e f g h i j k l m n o p r s t u v á ä å đ ŋ ŧ ’ \ ') I am almost certain the last two are an escape sequence for ', which is due to yaml not allowing ' as such, and needs to be written as \' — however, I wonder if the presence of the plain ' is an error to begin with and is some kind of input error / "ASCII" form of the included acutegravecomb .

I'd opt to remove the last two.

kontur commented 3 years ago

I've replace the "single quote" with modifier letter apostrophe. We will refine the handling of marks in just a bit, and I will add Modifier letter vertical line (ˈ) and Combining dot below (U+0323) as "auxiliary" marks then, or otherwise note them. They should not be part of the base orthography used for checking font support if their use is only circumstantial.

kontur commented 3 years ago

Depends on #28

kontur commented 2 years ago

This is in an of itself resolved, but #47 might affect this language, too, if there is any kind of generalisation possible.