Re: Name of Greek block (was: Re: Greek tonos and oxia)

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 03:21:18 CDT

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    On 30/06/2004 16:35, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

    >>the versions in the main Greek and
    >>Coptic block (or has it been officially renamed just "Greek"?)
    >>
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    >No, the block name won't be changed, in part because changing
    >block names is another destabilization in the standard that
    >really serves nobody well, but mostly because the existing
    >14 Coptic letters derived from Demotic will continue to
    >be in that block, regardless.
    >
    >--Ken
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    I asked partly because the name listed at http://www.unicode.org/charts/
    is now just "Greek" when I think it was formerly "Greek and Coptic". But
    maybe my memory is faulty because that page has not been updated since
    last October. 

    -- 
Peter Kirk
peter@qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/

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