#71 cyrillic small letter soft / hard sign: U+044C / U+044A

[Johannes Schütz]

I would like to request the inclusion of the letters ъ and ь on behalf of the Old Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary project at Humboldt-University Berlin (https://alew.hu-berlin.de). We currently lack a Unicode font that contains all the special characters that are needed for Lithuanian philology, ṡuch as * l̃, ę́, ė̃ or ė́*. Junicode contains almost all of those characters, except for ъ and ь.

U+044A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN
U+044C CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN

In Slavic historical linguistics, reconstructions of words are usually written with latin characters, but the cyrillic letters ъ and ь are used for the Proto-Slavic sounds that historically derive from Proto-Indo-European short /u/ and /i/ respectively. Thus the community of Slavic philology would also greatly benefit from this inclusion.

[Peter Baker]

The version of Junicode hosted here is no longer being updated. I'll be glad to include these new characters in Junicode 2, hosted on GitHub.

[Johannes Schütz]

That’s cool, should I create another ticket over there?