From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 21:14:22 CDT
Dean Snyder wrote:
>>It simply doesn't make
>>sense to me that we should do different things for Semitic than we do
>>for Indic.
> Is it not a factor that the Indic "scripts" are in everyday use by living
> communities?
Not all of them are. It is, however, a factor that the Indic scripts have varying shaping
behaviour, not all of which is easily addressable at the glyph level. There is a net
benefit to text processing and display in not unifying their encoding.
John Hudson
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