[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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