LL-L "Orthography" 2002.03.31 (01) [E]

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From: erek gass <egass at caribline.com>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2002.03.30 (03) [E]

>From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Resources
>
>Dear Lowlanders,
>
>Below please find an inquiry I received from Michael Everson, who has
>been a guiding light and a helping hand in getting necessary exposure
>and tools for all sorts of languages to be included in electronic
>communication.
>
>What Michael refers to is a crossed lower-case "b" (with a horizontal
>stroke through its top) as used ion Old Saxon (the ancestor of Low
>Saxon/Low German).  Since this character -- which corresponds to either
>/b/ or /v/ in the descendant language varieties -- can occur only
>between two vowels, it cannot occur at the beginning of a word, thus is
>not normally capitalized.  I do not remember ever seeing a capitalized
>form, though I need to ask if any of you ever has seen one.  Even if
>not, I would suggest that one be included in fonts for all-caps headings
>for today's use, also because one might consider using this letter for a
>common Low Saxon orthography in the future (to represent variation of
>-b- and -v- in modern dialects).
>
>I will be BCCing Michael on this and any responses.
>
>Thanks.
>Reinhard/Ron
>
>***
>
>Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:58:35 +0000
>To: sassisch at yahoo.com
>From: "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>
>Subject: Lowlands-L
>
>In Germanic linguistics the bilabial fricative is often written b
>with a stroke through the ascender. If I remember right, Old Saxon
>used this letter as well. My question: Do we have a requirement to
>have the capital form of this as well as the small form in Unicode? I
>suppose we do, at least for titling. But if anyone out there has
>actually seen one in an edition of some kind, I'd be very interested
>to hear about it.... Would you know?
>--
>Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

If one is using all caps, then slashed B will be necessary if the
occasion require.

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