Set a /g/ with a line through its descender rather than beneath it is In the images for the Semitic translator font atīeneath the descender of /g/ (and also beneath the descender of /p/) and In which lowercase /g/ with macron below is paired with uppercase /G/ Some examples of the bar at various heights: In eighteenth century orthographies of some European languages. Yet it would be wrong to say that /g/ with macron above might never beĭistinguished from /g/ with macron beneath, for a macron over aĬonsonant was sometimes used as a short writing for a double consonant Particular taste of the author, and what characters were to be had in Latin transcription practise in the language being transcribed, the Use of one of these over the other would be based on traditional Probably indicating the voiced, velar fricative as the /g/ in German WITH MACRON or U+01E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH STROKE would interpretĮach as a variant of the same method of indicating a soft consonant, In inverted form or above it as a turned comma or above it as an acuteĮssentially, most linguists on coming across U+1E21 LATIN LETTER SMALL G Placed above the letter instead, as with /g/ + cedilla in which theĬedilla may appear depending on font either beneath the /g/ or above it Through the descender (as with standard underlining). Sometimes the line is placed beneath the descender and sometimes Meaning variants of the forms with a stroke through them, these strokedĪ problem occurs when the letter has a descender, for example /g/ and Their names and have a canonical composition ending with U+0331 are in Weaker sound is not so distinguished, or when distingushed by aĭiacritic (or lack of diacrtic in pointed Hebrew), then an underbarĭiacritic in the Latin transliteration makes more sense than using aīut, generally, the forms in Unicode that appear with "LINE BELOW" in Transliterating from a character set where the sounds are alsoĭistinguished by separate letters of the source orthography. There is a weak tendency to prefer the bar through the letter when For example, / _d_/ would indicate the sound or possibly Softer pronounciation then would indicated by the same glyph lacking theīar. Through a letter usually have identical meanings, normally indicating a
In ancient middle-eastern languages both an underscore and a bar Mail actions: įrom my experience in some general historical linguistics and some work.Maybe in reply to: "various stroked characters".Previous message: "Re: Spanish grammar (was Re: Typesetting rules in Spanish)".Unicode Mail List Archive: Re: various stroked characters Re: various stroked characters From: Jim Allan ( Sun 22:25:37 EDT