Re: does anybody know about these accidentals?
Werner LEMBERG via Unicode <[email protected]>
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>> we wonder about the origin of the following two characters:
>>
>> š¯„² U+1D132 MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE SHARP
>> š¯„³ U+1D133 MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE FLAT
>>
>> The original proposal to encode them in Unicode is
>> https://unicode.org/L2/L1998/98045.pdf ā€“ alas, the contained scans
>> don't cover those two characters, and I don't have access to the cited
>> books.
>
> Well, thanks to the internet I was able to actually check the cited
> references (Read, Heussenstamm, Rastall, Stone), and *none* of them
> actually contain these accidentals!
>
> Sigh. Does anybody have an e-mail address of the proposal's author,
> Perry Roland? Maybe he can remember...
Found it ā€“ I've CCed him. Perry, please comment!
Werner