Mirjana,
Since I promised to review the second-level LGRs to see if there are any characters in any of those languages that we have not include I have also done that and this is my findings (Bill
and Meikal have at least looked at some of them):
U+00FF is included for French. Omniglot does not list it, but Wikipedia does.
U+0157 is included for Latvian. Omniglog does not list it. Wikipedia does, but today only used in diaspora (as Meikal pointed out).
The other missing code-points from Latin Extended-A were not found.
Code points I looked at:
00FF LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS (French)
0109 LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX
0125 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH CIRCUMFLEX
0135 LATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH CIRCUMFLEX
014F LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH BREVE
0157 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CEDILLA (Latvian)
0163 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
0177 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH CIRCUMFLEX
The LGRs can be found at
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/second-level-lgr-2015-06-21-en
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A comment to Bill and Meikal:
The LGR for German and Spanish lists U+014F (ŏ) LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH BREVE as *excluded* not as included. You have to go down to “repertoire by code point” to see what is
included. They also have a concept of “extended code point” which is in between included and excluded, e.g. U+00E0 for Spanish.
Ÿ (U+00FF) is neither included in English nor German.
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.