Peter_Constable@... wrote:

>
> On 11/08/2001 10:36:33 AM John Jenkins wrote:
>
> >Mandarin-speaking Chinese didn't invent them. The best we could do going
>
> >along that route would be to go with something like "ͧͧÏýânÊ* dzÊ¿iÊ*" (sorry
> >if this doesn't come out correctly, but Karlgren's bizarre romanization
> is
> >*not* very ASCII-friendly).
>
> It didn't all come out for me, but enough to see the half rings around the
> i. What's that all about? This looks like a diacritic on the i such that
> the two pieces form some kind of unit, but of course your Unicode
> character sequence doesn't work that way. What's that supposed to
> represent?

Oy, take a look at Karlgren's Grammata Sinica (Recensa). And I don't see
that he actually explains all the little flyspecks anywere!
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...