Re: Glagolitic Case-sensitive? What in the Heavens for?

From: Philippe VERDY (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Wed May 18 2005 - 09:52:12 CDT

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From: "Alexander Kh." To: unicode@unicode.org
> Please tell me someone, why in the heavens, making destinction between capital
> letters and normal letters in Glagoliza? Who's idea that was?
> The glyph shapes seem to be the same and there are no capitalization rules for
> that script. Let's add case sensitivity to Runic and hieroglyphic scripts for
> the sake of consistency in introduction of confusion.

Oh yes, I like this idea!

Let's add immediately the missing BIG CAPITALS that lead paragraphs and span an unspecified number of lines too (I don't know the English term for the French "lettrine"), because it's common in lots of books and publications, both modern and historic! And why not also, all the smallcaps...

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