From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2005 - 00:42:35 CST
John Burger <john at mitre dot org> wrote:
> I presume you're asking about my head-start comment, rather than the
> OCR idea. I just meant that the equivalence mappings, etc., provide a
> clue that some characters are similar in appearance to others.
That isn't their purpose at all. They show which characters are
*functionally* equivalent to others.
> To my surprise the code charts do not seem to indicate that Cyrillic
> and Latin "a" are related. There is clearly an embarrassing gap in my
> understanding here - what am I missing?
They aren't related, except historically. Unicode doesn't care that
they look the same.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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