From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 08:23:32 EST
Michael Everson scripsit:
> 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.
Structurally it's an abugida, like Indic and UCAS.
> You are, because the floodgates, while once open, have been closed by
> normalization.
Indeed, they were opened in Unicode 1.1, as a result of the merger with
FDIS 10646; since then, only 46 characters with canonical decompositions
have been added to Unicode (excepting compatibility ideographs, which
are a special case).
Specifically, 16 were added in Unicode 2.0, 29 in Unicode 1.0, and
just one in Unicode 3.2 (the slashed version of a symbol added at the
same time).
-- "What has four pairs of pants, lives John Cowan in Philadelphia, and it never rains http://www.reutershealth.com but it pours?" jcowan@reutershealth.com --Rufus T. Firefly http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Nov 25 2003 - 09:12:41 EST