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There are some look-alike characters that should be avoided.

These should be in a file called something like lookalikes.tsv and they should map scalar values to their "canonical" value.

Additionally, every combination of "syllabic + " should be mapped to the appropriately dotted syllabic.

I've been using ᕀ U+1540 CANADIAN SYLLABICS WEST-CREE Y as the final for Y, because... look at the name!

But I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the canoncical final should be ᐩ U+1429 CANADIAN SYLLABICS FINAL PLUS

I'm consistently told that ALL finals should be near the top, almost like a superscript. All fonts I'm aware of differs in rendering these two only by whether the final is to the side or to the side and near the top. ᐩ U+1429 CANADIAN SYLLABICS FINAL PLUS is always near the top, just like people keep telling me that final should go. So maybe that should be my canonical choice for the Y final. I'd need to update lookalikes.tsv, and, of course, ensure all existing syllabics tools use this in the future:

• cree-sro-syllabics.py
• cree-sro-syllabics.js
• syllabics.app
• nrc_crk_cans
• fv_firstvoices

I made a Twitter poll to try to figure it out: https://twitter.com/_eddieantonio/status/1275445947682545666