Re: Re : [libreoffice-l10n] Fwd: Text in UI, we do not understand

They are diacritic marks that mark tone in tonal languages, so there's 
"squiggles" that go above or beside another letter to indicate if it's a 
high rising tone, a low rising tone, a mid level tone, and so on. 
There's a better pdf here which actually displays them
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA700.pdf

So saying it in long it would be "Linguistic symbols for marking tone in 
tone languages that modify another letter (usually a vowel)"

Michael

13/07/2013 12:21, sgrìobh Tom Davies:
> The wikipedia page about "Modifier Tone Letters" says
> "Modifier Tone Letters is a Unicode block containing tone markings for Chinese, Chinantec, Africanist, 
> and other phonetic transcriptions. It does not contain the standard IPA tone marks, which are found in 
> Spacing Modifier Letters."
> but i still don't understand what it means.  More to the point i don't see how to cut it down to 
> just a couple of words that do make sense.


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