[Lexicog] Interesting toolbox unicode problem

[Claire Bowern]

I have an intriguing problem with a toolbox file. It's in an Eastern 
Armenian transliteration that my class came up with and is in Doulos 
SIL. Most of the unicode characters are ignored when the database is 
alphabetised for export to mdf. So, for example, the "a" entries begin 
like this:

aʧʰ 	adj. right. [Note: as opposed to left]
ʦʰaʦʼ 	adv. down.
ʧʰaɺ 	adj. evil; bad.
ʧʼaɺ 	n. A finding; noun equivalent to verb ʧʼaɺel 'to find'. See: ʧʼaɺel.
ʧʰaɺ 	adj. bad. [Note: evil, unkind]
aʁ 	n. salt.
aχ 	interjection. oh.
ʦʰaχ 	n. Collective mass of fallen branches, leaves, etc.
dzaχ 	left (opposite of right). [Note: Is this used as a noun or 
adjective in Armenian (or both)?]
ʁa 	onomat. crow’s cry.
χaʁ 	v. game. See: χaʁel. [Ques: came or game? I would say game as χaʁel 
is "to playń" (CKS)]
  a 	v.suff. third singular present subjunctive. Prdm:  al verbs.
  aɺ 	v.suff. third singular past subjunctive. Prdm:  al verbs.
aɺa 	interjection. hey (impolite interjection). [Note: In 050930f 
session, Zaven told us we shouldn't use this. Also said it is the 
imperative form meaning "Do it"]
χaʁaʁ 	adj. peaceful. [Note: Forms minimal pair with [xaʁoʁ] 'grapes']

(you'll need a unicode email reader to see this right, but the point is 
just that not everything starts with a)

Has anyone else had this problem and were you able to find a solution to 
it?
(I know this isn't really a shoebox/toolbox help list but since there 
are many people here who use toolbox regularly I thought I'd try my luck)
Claire


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Dr Claire Bowern
Linguistics, Rice University
Houston TX


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