Re: elided base character or obliterated character (was: Hebrew composition model, with cantillation marks)

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Thu Nov 06 2003 - 12:51:53 EST

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    Andrew C. West scripsit:

    > The problem of how to represent missing/obliterated characters in Unicode when
    > transcribing manuscript/printed texts and inscriptions, etc. has always
    > perplexed me.

    IIRC we talked about this a year or so ago, and kicked around the idea that
    the Chinese square could be treated as a glyph variant of U+3013 GETA MARK,
    which looks quite different but symbolizes the same thing.

    I don't remember the outcome. 

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