Re: Swiss Phonetic Alphabet

[Michael Everson <everson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone know about this?

>"Switzerland has his own phonetic alphabet (it is used for the old
>german that is very near the swiss language Swiss German). At the
>moment each project uses a special font and different tricks in
>order to publish their book. The problem is not that much new
>characters but the combinations with dead character like diaeresis
>that change the way you should pronounce this character. The
>difficulty is that we often need several modifiers (two over the
>character and one or two under). That means that we first need to be
>able to have up to 4 modifiers and that the character still has to
>be nicely represented otherwise you cannot see which modifiers are
>in use...."



The idea is to determine if there are characters missing from Unicode.

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