Re: Nuuchanulth and other languages of British Columbia

From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Sun May 29 2005 - 15:08:54 CDT

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    At 14:28 -0400 2005/05/29, Chris Harvey wrote:
    >There is some confusion in this and other
    >languages between ½, ? and ?. They are treated
    >as variants of the same letter, but which
    >Unicode character to choose? I believe the
    >standard for Nuuchahnulth is ½, but ? and ?
    >often appear in texts.

    This relates to the issue whether the Unicode
    character set should admit proper semantic
    representation, or merely provide look-alike
    glyphs. 

    -- 
   Hans Aberg

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