From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 08:43:53 CDT
At 21:07 -0700 2005/05/31, Doug Ewell wrote:
>Hans Aberg <haberg at math dot su dot se> wrote:
>
>>> ... why the heck
>>> was ``fi'' or ``ffi'' encoded when these two can be expressed with
>>> their corresponding atoms, ...
>>
>> One other way to view this (than backwards
>> compatibility with existing character sets), is
>> that the Unicode abstract character set contains
>> more than one type of abstract characters. With
>> modern computing techniques, the most important
>> type to add is the semantic character, which
>> provides proper atomic linguistic semantic units.
>> The characters above, are glyphs, used to
>> simplify rendering.
>
>The characters above were added for backward compatibility with existing
>character sets. This is known and undisputed, and is not due to
>alternative interpretations of the character-glyph model.
Implicit in my statement is that one can do such an interpretation if
one wants Unicode to move forward with respect to this issue.
-- Hans Aberg
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