Re: Coptic II?

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Sat Nov 09 2002 - 12:49:06 EST

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    Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin scripsit:

    > The roadmap v3.5 < http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/bmp-3-5.html >, as
    > of 2002.04.04, refers for block U+2C00 - U+2C3F a formal proposal for
    > "Coptic". Failing to access the linked proposal right now, what is the
    > difference between this script and the coptic chars included in the
    > Greek block (U+0370 - U+03FF)?

    The new proposal supplies Coptic versions of the letters currently
    unified with Greek, leaving the existing Coptic-specific letters alone.
    It reflects the consensus in UTC that unifying Greek and Coptic was a
    mistake. 

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John Cowan       http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  `Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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