Re: Ancient Greek (symbols versus letters and duplicate letters)

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At 15:32 -0400 2003-04-07, Edward C. D. Hopkins wrote:

>If I am typing a Greek inscription, how do I decide whether to use U+03DE
>GREEK LETTER KOPPA or U+03D8 GREEK LETTER ARCHAIC KOPPA? Aren't these the
>same letter with a difference only in artistic rendering? Unicode does not
>use the "symbol" connotation in this case. Why give two artistic forms of
>the same letter?

Because they are not the same. See
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1938.pdf

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