Re: phonetic superscripts, etc.

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Sun Jul 04 1999 - 13:46:46 EDT


Mark Davis scripsit:

> It sounds like you are suggesting that whenever a letter could collate
> differently, it should be cloned. That would end up with a muddle of visually
> identical characters, especially for Latin. There would be at least three copies
> of a-diaeresis, for example.

But this argument proves too much. LATIN LETTER THORN is a clone of
RUNIC LETTER THORN, but when Runic was added, nobody suggested
unifying them. CYRILLIC LETTERs KU and WE should likewise be
disunified.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
       I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin



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