Unicode name questions

[Philip Swartzleonard]

Martin v. Loewis || Wed 17 Apr 2002 01:25:23a:

> Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
> 
>> "Lambda" has been spelled with a "b" as long as I can remember.  
> 
> I think the Unicode charts use an ASCII transcription of the native
> pronouncation of the letters, if possible. In any case, the Unicode
> names for the characters are "official" in the context of Unicode.
> The Unicode consortium refrains from renaming them. Between Unicode
> 2.0 and Unicode 3.2, no character was renamed.
> 
> [Etc Etc Greekness]

Hm. I was browing through some of their code charts for the heck of it, 
and I noticed that they listed certain kata/hiragana characters's primary 
names as SI, TI, TU, etc. I've listened to a considerable amount of 
japanese media, and AFAICT the correct romanization of those sounds would 
be SHI, CHI, TSU, etc.

But then they also have some other wierdness, e.g., listing VA, VI, VE, VO 
as WA, WI, WE, WO + diacrit, where WI and WE are old, obsolite* characters 
as mentioned in my dictonary, and to the best of my knowledge the methods 
for doing V sounds are eihter old-style use of B sounds, or new-style use 
of A,I,E,O + diacrit. And there's this 'katakana iteration symbol' (and 
hira, and voiced of both) that i've never so much as heard of... :\

(*I can't for the life of me find a spelling of this word that i'm sure 
of, and I don't have checker or dictionary or time on hand... bed. now.)

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