Meikal,
I have the same question on the LGR for Swedish. It contains characters never used for writing Swedish words. They can be found in non-Swedish names in a text in Swedish, but if that
is the criterion (that the letter appears in a Swedish text) then the list of characters should be much longer. Any place or person name written with Latin characters could be found in a Swedish text.
The Swedish second-level LGR cannot be used to support the inclusion of characters, and the it seems like it is the same for e.g. the German table.
Mats
From: Latingp <latingp-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Meikal Mumin <meikal.mumin@uni-koeln.de>
Date: Monday, 23 July 2018 at 00:11
To: Bill Jouris <bill.jouris@insidethestack.com>
Cc: ICANN Latin GP <latingp@icann.org>
Subject: Re: [Latingp] Repertoire and Latin Extended A
Dear colleagues,
On 22 July 2018 at 21:49, Bill Jouris <bill.jouris@insidethestack.com> wrote:
Hi Mirjana,
I've reviewed the repertoire we have (after adding Esperanto) and compared it to the Unicode table's Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, and Latin Extended-A codepoints.
The following entries from Latin-1 Supplement are included in MSR-2, but not included in our repertoire:
00FF ÿ Latin Small Letter Y with Diaeresis
This occurs rarely in personal names in German
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%B8#Franz%C3%B6sisch
and in French in place names amongst others (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%B8#Fran%C3%A7ais).
The following entries from Latin Extended-A are included in MSR-3 but not included in our repertoire:
014F ŏ Latin Small Letter O with Breve
0157 ŗ Latin Small Letter R with Cedilla
FYI
ÿ is listed in the ICANN LGRs for German and for English (much to my amazement, as I have never encountered it previously), but does not appear in Omniglot, nor in the Wikipedia alphabet referenced in the LGR, for either language.
A quick search did not yield any evidence for English, but German - see above.
ŏ is listed in the ICANN LGRs for German and for Spanish, but does not appear in Omniglot, nor in the Wikipedia alphabet referenced in the LGR, for either language.
A quick search did not yield any supporting evidence.
ŗ is listed in the ICANN LGR for Latvian, but does not appear in Omniglot, nor in the Wikipedia alphabet referenced in the LGR.
This https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%96 says it was used historically in Lativian. This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_orthography
clarifies that it is part of an older orthography still in use in diaspora communities.
This is way larger than the set of characters used in German, even taking into consideration loans and borrowings from other languages. I would be interested to know who developed this on what basis. Some sources are 404.