Script Encoding Initiative
Department of Linguistics
U C BerkeleyPhonetic Proposals
Script proposals benefit from the feedback of scholarly experts and user communities. This pages lists phonetic proposals that are under consideration.
Users may develop and test fonts based on the codepoint assignments listed in the documents below, but they should refrain from releasing "Unicode-compliant" fonts until the Unicode Consortium has officially released the version in which the characters appear (i.e., Unicode 4.1 or Unicode 5.0), as some codepoint assignments may change.
A link to a list of general questions that can be used in reviewing script proposals is available at: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/ProposalQuestions.html. Please send comments directly to: dwanders @ socrates . berkeley . edu or to the author of the proposal.
(The following will be included in Amendment 1 and will appear in Unicode 4.1, to be released at the end of March 2005; see http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2845.pdf)
Proposal to encode additional phonetic letters by INCITS/L2, UTC, SIL International
(date: 2004-04-19; proposal: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2740.pdf)
Comment: This includes 73 new characters.Proposal to encode 2 Africanist phonetic characters by Michael Everson and Peter Constable
(date: 2004-06-12 ; proposal: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2799.pdf)
Comment: This proposal is for small Latin letter s and z with a swash tail, used for the voiceless and voiced labio-alveolar fricatives.Proposal to encode IPA combining marks, modifier letters, and five-degree contour tone marks by the Chinese NB
(date: 2004-03-19; proposal: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2713.pdf)Proposal to encode six Indo-Europeanist phonetic characters by Michael Everson and Deborah Anderson
(date: 2004-06-07; proposal: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2788.pdf)
Comment: This proposal is for subscript a, e, o, x, and schwa, used in some reconstructions of Proto-Indo-European. A subscript slash, also proposed, was rejected by the UTC.Revised Proposal to Encode Orthographic Glottal Stop in the UCS by SIL International (Jonathan Kew) and Peter Constable
(date: 2004-06-08 proposal: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2847.pdf)"
Comment: This proposal was for the capital letter glottal stop.(The following are slated to be included in Amendment 2 and will appear in Unicode 5.0 in 2006; see http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2846.pdf)
Revised Proposal to Encode Chinantec Tone Marks by Lorna Priest, SIL International
(2004-12-09; proposal: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2883.pdf)
Comments: Four characters are included in this proposal, all modifier letters used for the Ozumacín Chinantec language of Mexico. (They include: dot vertical bar, dot slash, dot horizontal bar, and lower right corner angle.)Proposal for Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic Characters by Lorna Priest, SIL International
(date: 2004-06-11, revised 2004-08-23; proposal: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2906.pdf)
Comment: Twenty-one characters are proposed, including the contour tone diacritics.Proposal for Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic Characters by Lorna Priest, SIL International
(date: 2004-12-09; proposal: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2847.pdf)
Comment: Five characters are proposed: Latin small / capital double-barred l, Latin capital l with middle tilde, Latin capital p with stroke, and Latin capital r with tail.)The following has(/have) not been approved and is (/are) still under consideration:
Proposal to add Bantu phonetic click characters to the UCS by Michael Everson
(date: 2004-06-10; proposal: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2790.pdf)(For the latest ISO WG2 additions, see: http://anubis.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/documents.)
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Last modification: January 25, 2005