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

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun Aug 23 2009 - 09:29:23 CDT

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    On 23 Aug 2009, at 14:08, David Starner wrote:

    > Greek is a simple script. You have a choice of duplicating one
    > character, like has always been done for Greek keyboards, or you can
    > force all the Greek users to learn how to use characters like ZWJ--in
    > fact forcing them to think in Unicode terms--so one character can be
    > saved and the encoding is arguably theoretically a bit cleaner. It's
    > not worth the trade-off.

    This is a splendid argument for the disunification of some Greek
    characters for Latin IPA. :-)

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

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