Terve Tapani, thanks for getting the discussion started. Just some quick clarifications about the meaning of code points table in Section 5.3 of the RZ-LRG Proposal. Am 26.02.2025 um 19:23 schrieb Tapani Tarvainen via Gnso-latin-diacritics:
Dear all,
This is not really a substantial concern, but I noticed a couple of small errors in the Proposal for Latin Root Zone document, specifically in the included code points table (5.3.), languages using the code point column:
š (latin small letter s with caron) and ž (latin small letter z with caron) are also used in Finnish, and their behaviour is unusual enough and possibly relevant to us that it should be discussed at some point.
æ (latin small letter ae) and ø (latin small letter o with stroke) are also used in Norwegian.
These are not errors in the Proposal. The list was never meant to be exhaustive, i.e., list all languages in which a certain code points was used. The goal was to find some example that proves the actual use of the character in any language in level 0-3(4). It was a simple yes/no decision, in or out of the repertoire. For a code point to be in, we needed to show it was actually used.
ü (latin small letter u with diaeresis) is *not* used in Swedish unless you count proper names of foreign origin, in which case it should also be included in Finnish along with é and some others.
I don't know Swedish, so indeed this might be a mistake, but there are enough other languages having ü that this does not cause any harm for the definition of the repertoire. In that sense, the RZ-LGR cannot be taken as an exhaustive list of code point usages. Cheers, Michael -- ____________________________________________________________________ | | | knipp | Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH ------- Technologiepark Martin-Schmeißer-Weg 9 44227 Dortmund Deutschland Dipl.-Informatiker Tel: +49 231 9703-0 Fax: +49 231 9703-200 Dr. Michael Bauland SIP: Michael.Bauland@knipp.de Software-Entwicklung E-Mail: Michael.Bauland@knipp.de Registereintrag: Amtsgericht Dortmund, HRB 13728 Geschäftsführer: Dietmar Knipp, Elmar Knipp Zertifiziert nach DIN ISO/IEC 27001:2017