May 9, 2007

1. combining glottal and combining comma. By combining comma do you mean the combining apostrophe? If so, then combining glottal and combining comma/apostrophe are two different symbols for the same sound: they both represent glottalization. We decided at some point in December I think that we will actually replace all the combining glottals with combining commas/apostrophes in order to be completely consistent throughout. The one constraint on this is that we have to continue to use combining glottals in the xml:ids.

2. Acute and grave accents are irrelevant for alphabetical order. In other words there is no difference in alphabetical order between [a] with no accent, [a] with acute accent, and [a] with grave accent; and this is similar for all the other vowels. Does this mean that the java sorter can ignore the accents?

3. What I can’t determine from your presentation of the material is whether there is significance to the order that you have given for the diacritics. Why have you placed [dot below] before [combining glottal], etc. ? Can you explain this to me?