Da'ud Notation

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Information:

Da'ud notation is a way of indicating special characters and accents in formats that don't allow typing such characters otherwise.

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Sources:

"Da'ud Notation" PDF on Laurel website - [[1]]

"The Rest of the Alphabet: the Da'ud Notation System" - [[2]]

"Non-ASCII Symbols in the SCA Armorial Database" - http://oanda.sca.org/data_symbols.html

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Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[3]] Morsulus Heralds Website - [[4]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents) Restatement Wiki - [[5]] (restatements of Precedents)

October 2015 Cover Letter - Da'ud encoding DOT ABOVE and DOT BELOW

It was discovered that the Da'ud code {z.} was defined as both Z WITH DOT ABOVE and Z WITH DOT BELOW. This is clearly not a good thing. It has been fixed. The meaning of a dot in a Da'ud code is now consistent. That is, El{z.}bieta Piekarska could have had the dot above or below the z, and trying to look it up in the table of Da'ud codes would not have helped you out. {.*} now signifies * WITH DOT ABOVE, and {*.} signifies * WITH DOT BELOW, for all values of "*" from "a" to "z", upper and lower case (at least as far as those letters are already in the list). What changed? > {.e} and {.E} for E WITH DOT ABOVE were added > {.I} was defined to be LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE where it had been {I.}. > {I.} was redefined to be LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT BELOW as it had been some time ago. > {.z} and {.Z} were redefined to be LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE instead of DOT BELOW. This required recoding six names that used letters with DOT ABOVE. Those names are now coded as: > D{zv}iugint{.e} Litovka > El{.z}bieta Piekarska > El{.z}bieta Traidenyt{.e} > {.I}slah bint Yuhannah > G{u:}rc{u:} {.I}skender > Umm Davud Mihri bint {.I}skender The names have not changed, just the Da'ud codes used for some of their letters. The full chart at http://oanda.sca.org/data_symbols.html has been updated to reflect these changes. http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2015/10/15-10cl.html

March 2013 Cover Letter - Da'ud Notation:

In this Letter of Acceptances and Returns, we are using two new characters in Da'ud notation, both extensions of existing patterns: {au} is an "a" marked with a breve (a short mark), which matches the Unicode character U+0103 "LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE" and {uo} is "u" with a ring over it, which matches the unicode character U+016F "LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE".