unicode Siouan

[Rankin, Robert L]

> I remember an ardent IPAer arguing to the contrary on this point on
the Linguist List years ago and citing chapter and verse in the IPA
documents, but this is certainly the American assessment of what IPA was
intended for, perhaps arising from IPA originating before phonology was
widely seen as separate from phonetics?

Yeah, IPAers are nothing if not "ardent".  Actually, I think if you read
the fine print in some of the IPA footnotes they make provision for
things like hacek and maybe ogonek as alternatives, etc.  But you never
see them actually use those symbol sets, and I suspect they were put
there as sop for central Europeans who had them in their alphabets
already.  And phonology seems to be regressing nowadays anyway.

Having spent several posts talking about newer unicode fonts, I should
express all of our gratitude to John for making life with truetype fonts
so much easier for us all over the past decade or so.  Without SSDoulos
I'd probably still be writing in diacritics by hand a lot of the time!

Bob