On Tue, 2024-05-14 at 20:45 +0000, Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> There is precedent for a non-alpha non-punctuation character: Tom
> Lehrer's song character HEN3RY (I think)
Some of the First Nations people in North America use non-alpha
characters, for example to represent glottal stops (Sa85wxL1wC:7mesh, or
Squamish, uses a 7 for example), and i think some transcriptions of
Afrcan languages may use some unexpected chatacters too.
Hawaiian and Samoan use J;okina which has an inverted/rotated
apostrophe. MeL1j phaL1aL1 (Tlapanec) uses the saltillo, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltillo_(linguistics)#The_saltillo_letter
p is the name of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, if i have that right,
but thatbs a hieroglyph for a hieraphant.
Sometimes completeness matters less than disallowing all but expected
and handled data and manually dealing with the rest.
liam
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