[Fwd: Re: [B-Greek] Re: Unicode vs. Older Software - A Survey]
Philip Silouan Thompson
himself at philthompson.net
Mon Apr 18 17:51:17 EDT 2005
The current Unicode discussion began when R Yochanan Bitan Buth wrote:
> I see a problem with some recent emails I sent. When writing
> a phonetic symbol for German "ue" or French "u" ....
> So how does one type a "u with umlaut" for b-greek?
Here's a suggestion:
The French alphabet includes a letter "Y" (looks like a capital upsilon)
which they call "y grec" which is to say "Greek Y". The Dutch do the
same: They call it "griekse y".
So when referring to the sound of the french "u" Why not return the
favor and call it "French u"?
To emphasize a particular pronunciation of e.g. KURIOS, one could write
KfrenchuRIOS.
On a more serious note, when writing Vietnamese, one appends a plus-sign
to provide the alternate form of a letter like U. If I saw someone
writing KU+RIOS I'd be pretty sure they meant to umlaut the U.
Philip Silouan Thompson
Walla Walla, Washington
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