Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters

From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 02 2010 - 19:47:28 CDT

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    On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Karl Pentzlin <karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de> wrote:
    > I have compiled a draft proposal:
    > Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters
    > The draft can be downloaded at:
    >  http://www.pentzlin.com/Variation-Sequences-Latin-Cyrillic2.pdf (4.3 MB).
    > The final proposal is intended to be submitted for the next UTC
    > starting next Monday (August 9).

    Two things jumped out at me on a quick glance. First, I don't see why
    unspecific forms should be encoded; if you want a nonspecific a, 0061
    is the character. Secondly, Fraktur and Antiqua are different writing
    systems with slightly different orthographies; instead of messing
    around with variation sequences, just accept that. If they must be
    distinguished, surely the long-s variation sequence could be used in
    non-Fraktur fonts, like Blackletter and 18th century-style fonts. 

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