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Latest comment: 14 years ago by Eirikr in topic Shouldn't we

Shouldn't we

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use the Ainu katakana, romanized as yukar, rather than using Japanese katakana and yukara? I'm not sure though, since some dialects do have it as yukar. 24.159.255.29 00:46, 4 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Ainu katakana and Japanese katakana are identical, with the exception of the smaller katakana characters used to represent Ainu final consonants. However, many fonts that support katakana still do not support the smaller Ainu-specific katakana characters, causing these to appear as empty boxes or as some other illegible artifact. Hence the decision in this article to use regular katakana ラ (ra) in combination with the <small></small> tags.
Test comparison:
  • ユカ, using regular katakana (ra) at Unicode character encoding point U+30E9, together with <small></small> tags
  • ユカㇻ, using small katakana (used to represent syllable-ending r in Ainu) at Unicode character encoding point U+31FB
Both should be romanized and read as yukar, but the former will display correctly on more systems than the latter. -- Eiríkr ÚtlendiTala við mig 18:59, 25 July 2012 (UTC)Reply