Re: What justification for separately encoding two forms of lowercase sigma

From: Petr Tomasek (tomasek@etf.cuni.cz)
Date: Sun Aug 23 2009 - 08:51:55 CDT

  • Next message: Michael Everson: "Re: What justification for separately encoding two forms of lowercase sigma"

    On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:04:23PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
    > Correct me if I am wrong, but the single Greek letter sigma is said to
    > have two different forms, one in word-final and other in other places.
    > These are encoded in Unicode as 03C2 and 03C1 respectively.
    >
    > Now are these two symbols not just two different ways of writing the
    > same character? If yes, how can they be separately encoded? Is it only
    > to keep compatibility with some earlier standard? Or can these two
    > actually be considered as two different characters?
    >

    You find simillar issue in Hebrew too. (There, however final letters are
    NOT used at the and of the word...)

    P.T>

    -- 
    Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>
    Jabber: butrus@jabbim.cz
    SIP: butrus@ekiga.net
    


    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sun Aug 23 2009 - 08:55:27 CDT