Re: Back to Coptic

From: Patrick Andries (patrick.andries@xcential.com)
Date: Fri Jul 08 2005 - 13:48:54 CDT

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    Patrick Andries a écrit :

    > John Hudson a écrit :
    >
    >>
    >> I basically agree, and withdraw my suggestion. The risk of seeing two
    >> bars would be easily avoided in a font that included the bar in the
    >> SHIMA SIMA glyph, but I accept Michael's argument about consistency
    >> within Coptic *as encoded*. If I'd been involved earlier, I might
    >> have queried the need for the SHIMA SIMA character at all, but there
    >> it is,
    >
    >
    > Canada opposed its inclusion (but accepted other abbreviations) and
    > remained unconvinced at the end of the ad hoc meeting.

    Sorry: other symbols, but they were only explained in a single sentence
    as abbreviations in the proposal, after the adhoc we accepted them as
    symbols, but we opposed the SHIMA SIMA since it is a regular abbreviation.

    <http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/N2926.pdf> page 3.

    P. A.



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