From: John Cowan (cowan@ccil.org)
Date: Sat May 08 2004 - 08:15:17 CDT
Kenneth Whistler scripsit:
> (Encoded as distinct scripts, by the
> way, despite their clear and evident historic relationship
> to each other, and despite the fact that Japanese can obviously
> read both of them with great facility -- if you guys want to
> take that particular bone in your mouth and chew on it for
> awhile... consider Kana the 48CEAS *hehe*)
Of course they would have to be. But if the Japanese had ditched their
kanji and wrote mostly in hiragana, with katakana used very rarely --
say, about as frequent in running text as italicized foreign words in
Latin-script running text -- they might not have bothered to encode
them separately.
> If it turns out to make the most sense for a default table
> to have 22CWSA scripts (as John puts it) sort with interleaved
> primary weights, it is technically feasible to generate a
> table that way. (Although not for Hebrew versus Arabic versus
> Syriac, which are treated distinctly for primary weights now.)
Oh, I quite agree. Arabic and Syriac are out of the picture here:
too many consonants, too different.
> It isn't a foregone conclusion what the UTC and WG2 will do on
> this issue -- it, like the encoding of the Phoenician
> (~ Old Canaanite, ~ Old West Semitic) script itself, is a
> matter for technical debate and decision.
Which we are now having the preliminary part of.
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