Re: does anybody know about these accidentals?

Werner LEMBERG via Unicode <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jul 2024 07:43:27 +0000 (UTC)

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> Since the character is already encoded as a code point, and Unicode
> never removes any one already there, the character encoding question
> of this character is already settled.

Yes, but the shown glyph shape is disputable – or not, depending on
the point of view.  After some thinking I now believe that they
shouldn't be changed.  However, the description should be improved.

The two characters

  1D132   MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE SHARP
  1D133   MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE FLAT

are actually not accidentals but *pitch modifiers*: they are *added*
left to an accidental (or a note), indicating that the given pitch has
to be raised or lowered by a quarter tone.  This usage is shown in the
provided scans.

I've just sent an error report via

  https://corp.unicode.org/reporting/error.html

suggesting to move these two characters out of the `@ accidentals`
section into a new one, `@ Pitch modifiers` (to use the notation from
`NamesList.txt`).


    Werner