Mark Davis wrote:
>That is a bit stronger than the point I was making, which is not whether
they
>would find it 'acceptable'--that is a bit hard to quantify, since
aesthetic
>considerations could enter, but whether they would find it legible. In
this
>case, for example, would a Coptic (non-Greek) reader be able to make out
the
>text if the characters were in a Greek font, and vice versa?
It is true that my point that a text should be acceptable (nothing more!),
not merely decipherable, to experts is somewhat stronger than yours, but I
will stand by it. Coptic in a Greek front could be read without
unsurmountable problems, but so could a Latin text in Greek letters and
vice versa. The situation is very similar. We need a better criterion for
inclusion or unification of scripts than "relatedness".
My criterion implies --- and might be tested by it --- that a mixture
of, in this case, Greek and Coptic texts in the unified font would be
considered acceptable for native speakers of / experts in both languages
--- which it clearly would not.
The Unicode concept for fonts makes sense only when font switching is
necessitated exclusively by, well, the desire to use a different font, not
a different script in what is really the same font.
Michael Everson wrote:
>Greek and Coptic should never have been unified.
I could not agree more.
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