Parkosz, Unicode i Junicode

Abstract

Jakub Parkosz, also known as Parkoszowic, is the author of the first proposal of Polish spelling. In order to account for all the phonemes of Polish, some new letters were proposed. As his proposal was not widely accepted, the letters have not become available with the standard fonts, which makes it difficult to quote and discuss the proposal. Fortunately, the letters have recently been added to the Junicode font by its creator, Peter Baker. Keywords: Jakub Parkosz – history of Polish language – spelling – Unicode – fonts – Junicode.