Aw: Re: does anybody know about these accidentals?
Marius Spix via Unicode <[email protected]>
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Dear Werner, I already dicussed that in the thread "Reference glyphs of musical accidentals quarter sharp and quarter flat". In my opinion, the reference glyphs for these characters are incorrect. Best regards, Marius Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Juli 2024 um 08:26 Uhr Von: "Werner LEMBERG via Unicode" <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Betreff: Re: does anybody know about these accidentals? >> we wonder about the origin of the following two characters: >> >> 𝄲 U+1D132 MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE SHARP >> 𝄳 U+1D133 MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE FLAT >> >> The original proposal to encode them in Unicode is >> https://unicode.org/L2/L1998/98045.pdf – 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 – I've CCed him. Perry, please comment! Werner