Hook above and hoi

[arialcrime]

I think it makes sense to go from what Unicode calls “latin small letter a with hook above” to “ahoi” in ɣNUFL. In the same way I kind of expected “combining hook above” to be called “hoicmb” too. Is there a particular reason why this isn’t the case?

To replicate:

from glyphNameFormatter.reader import u2n

unicodes = [7843, 777]

for u in unicodes:
    n = u2n(u)
    print(n, hex(u), chr(u))

Output:

ahoi 0x1ea3 ả
hookabovecmb 0x309 ̉ 

[LettError]

ahoi comes from the old Adobe name list.

Q Is the hook shape always named hoi when it is above other characters? A Yes, most of the time:/Ahoi /ahoi /Acircumflexhoi /acircumflexhoi /Abrevehoi /abrevehoi /Ehoi /ehoi /Ecircumflexhoi /ecircumflexhoi /Ihoi /ihoi /Ohoi /ohoi /Ocircumflexhoi /ocircumflexhoi /Ohornhoi /ohornhoi /Uhoi /uhoi /Uhornhoi /uhornhoi /Yhoi /yhoi (searched on "hook above" with GlyphBrowser)

Q We also have a couple of names with hook without the location. /hook /Mhook /vrighthook /Whook /whook /lbeltretroflex /cpalatalhook /hpalatalhook /Hhook /Cpalatalhook /Shook /Zpalatalhook /ulefthook /ulefthookmod /dzdigraphretroflexhook /tsdigraphretroflexhook A This looks like a different kind of hook.

Q Can we still recognise it is a combining mark? A Yes it still has cmb in the name, hoicmb

I'd say this is a good argument for changing hookabovecmb. wdyt @typemytype

[typemytype]

yes good arguments :)

also read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_above

last argument: hoi is a diacritic for Vietnamese vowels only, so keep the name for the combining mark similarly.