Re: In defense of Plane 14 language tags (long)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 19:27:43 EST

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At 22:25 +0000 2002-11-04, Thomas M. Widmann wrote:

>Or what about Coptic? Unicode encodes most Coptic letters as Greek,
>which means that the same font cannot be used for displaying Greek and
>Coptic. (TUC 3.0, p. 168: "Texts that mix Greek and Coptic languages
>together must employ appropriate font style associations.") How is
>this supposed to work if one doesn't know what is Greek and what is
>Coptic?

Coptic will be disunified from Greek.

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