Re: Cheyenne and international standards
Caoimhin P. ODonnaile (caoimhin@smo.ac.uk)
Fri, 27 May 1994 10:30:07 BST
> In regard to Everson's query, whether Cheyenne is or should be written with
> ring-above or dot-above, perhaps the solution is to take one or the other
> arbitrarily, say ring above, and recognize that changing the glyph or the
> typographical realization of it is easily achieved. The abstract entity is
> voiceless vowel. The symbol is less important, and easily changed.
A similar situation exists in Polish. People often write grave accents
instead of acute accents, this being regarded as "the same thing". Usually,
however, acute accents are used in printed books, so this is the natural
choice for use in character codes. Some consistent choice has to be
made when encoding the language, otherwise spelling checkers, etc won't
work (or will be much more difficult to implement).
Kevin Donnelly