Re: Tamil sha (U+0BB6) - deprecate it?

From: Patrick Andries (patrick.andries@xcential.com)
Date: Sun Jun 26 2005 - 20:01:48 CDT

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    David Starner a écrit : 
    On 6/26/05, Patrick Andries <patrick.andries@xcential.com> wrote:
  
    Not the French writing system. It is an API symbol.. French is not
written in API (for the moment).
    I chose "writing system" on purpose.
    No,
    Well, yes : it is not written in API and to me this symbol is an API symbol (I know it is used in Sami also) but...

    ŋ is primarily used for writing several languages. It is as much
an IPA symbol than a or b. And ŋ is part of the script, Latin, used by
the French language, just like this letter is part of the script used
by the Tamil language. That doesn't mean that either French or Tamil
ever uses these letters.
    I see where you're going and it is true that Unicode scripts unify symbols used by many writing systems and thus languages.
    Or as the glossary says : « Script. A collection of symbols used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems.»

    So it may well be that the Tamil script would use symbols used to write more than the Tamil writing system (or language).

    P. A.

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