"Z with stroke" characters

nina27 December 2009 · 08:57

What are these good for?

U+01B5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH STROKE
U+01B6 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH STROKE

I always thought the barred "z" was just a stylistic variant, but since they have Unicode points, do they carry some sort of meaning?

Riccardo Sartori27 December 2009 · 09:31

Why, of course, in Pan-Turkic! ;-)
http://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2005-m05/0146.html

nina27 December 2009 · 09:50

1927–1940? Oh, how very necessary. Thanks :)

Strabismus27 December 2009 · 20:10

The barred 'z' is used in transliterating Chechen & Ingush, which are usually written in Cyrillic. The letter represents the sound of 's' in 'pleasure'.

blank27 December 2009 · 20:53

…just a stylistic variant…

Just a stylistic variant? Stylistic variance is the best reason to keep making new type!

nina28 December 2009 · 03:29

Strabismus: Thanks! That's useful to know.

"Stylistic variance is the best reason to keep making new type!"
Yeah, but maybe not the best/only reason to add another "z".

ingemisco28 December 2009 · 03:59

I believe the polish z-with-dot (ż) is written as a barred z in some (older) fonts/scripts, sometimes.

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