Caracteres phonetiques du suisse allemand

[Jacques Melot <jacques.melot AT isholf.is>]

   Ayant reçu ceci dans un des forums auxquels je participe, je le 
retransmets, parce qu'il peut intéresser certains d'entre-vous.

   Jacques Melot



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Anyone know about this?

> "Switzerland has his own phonetic alphabet (it is used for the old
> german that is very near the swiss language Swiss German). At the
> moment each project uses a special font and different tricks in
> order to publish their book. The problem is not that much new
> characters but the combinations with dead character like diaeresis
> that change the way you should pronounce this character. The
> difficulty is that we often need several modifiers (two over the
> character and one or two under). That means that we first need to be
> able to have up to 4 modifiers and that the character still has to
> be nicely represented otherwise you cannot see which modifiers are
> in use...."



The idea is to determine if there are characters missing from Unicode.

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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com