Re: Korean compression (was: Re: Ternary search trees for Unicode dictionaries)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 06:54:02 EST

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    At 03:41 -0800 2003-11-25, Peter Kirk wrote:

    >After all, Ethiopic was encoded as a syllabary just because the
    >vowel points happen to have become attached to the base characters.

    Ridiculous. This happened centuries ago, and it is not "why" Ethiopic
    was encoded as a syllabary. It was encoded as a syllabary because it
    is a syllabary.

    >But the floodgates have already been opened - not just Ethiopic but
    >Greek extended, much of Latin extended, the Korean syllables which
    >started this discussion, the small amount of precomposed Hebrew
    >which we already have, etc. People have tried to force them shut,
    >and with good reason. But don't accuse me of starting something new.

    You are, because the floodgates, while once open, have been closed by
    normalization.

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    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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