God, I hate trendy “pop-culture aficionados” who think the word refers to aliens.
John Hudson has a paper (PDF) on designing his font Sylfaen in which he lists what he thinks is the complete Cyrillic character set. Ever seen a capital schwa with dieresis?
Me neither. By the way, that’s 96 letters. Care for a game of Scrabble?
(Meanwhile, teddybearish Tom Phinney did a lousy job explaining which Cyrillic characters Adobe will include in future fonts, going so far as to type their raw character codes, not the characters, into his blog entry.)
The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2006.08.31 20:44. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: http://blog.fawny.org/2006/08/31/schwa/
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