Re: Unicode Cyrillic GHE DE PE TE in Serbian

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2000 - 13:10:05 EST


Erland Sommarskog scripsit:

> I'm not really sure whether the sigh is directed towards the actual
> state of affairs, or my silly question.

Neither. I was just remembering when I was hipped on separate Turkish
i's as Obviously The Right Thing.

> In any case, if we were to define a universal character set without
> any compatibility considerations, disunifying the I:s because of the
> different case rules, seems like a less good idea to me. As well in
> fact disunify the different A:s in Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. Sure
> case rules gets easier, but everything else, including user interface,
> gets messier.

Exactly so.,

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



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