From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 06:47:09 CDT
At 06:02 +0200 2004-05-23, Jony Rosenne wrote:
>Since there are 22 letters with similar meanings and similar names, there is
>not much difference between transliteration and encoding in practice.
Except legibility.
>I don't think the history of writing systems is going to help us here. There
>is no disagreement about the facts, just about their interpretation.
Historical principles have influenced, and will influence, what gets
encoded. That's part of the universality of the Universal Character
Set.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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