Re: query regarding proposed additions to Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 16:19:45 CDT

  • Next message: William J Poser: "Re: query regarding proposed additions to Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics"

    At 17:12 -0400 2008-05-06, William J Poser wrote:
    > >That does not matter. The point is to identify the letters
    > >unambiguously, and these are members of a class of letters which are
    > >identified by the string CARRIER in their name. That is, there is a
    > >class of CARRIER G-, CARRIER J-, and CARRIER L- letters to which
    > >these belong even if not used in the Carrier language.
    >
    >Is there a policy to use such names? I was not aware of this idea of
    >defining classes using language names unrelated to the use of the
    >characters in the names. This has the potential to be quite misleading.

    The UCAS block is composed of runs of classes.

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    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
    


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