Re: Coptic compared with Greek and Cyrillic

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Nov 26 1997 - 05:26:05 EST


Ar 15:04 -0800 1997-11-25, scríobh John Cowan:
>Michael Everson scripsit:
>
>> Please see http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/cy/coptic.html
>
>I think you need to add a version in Greek capital letters,
>probably in a smaller font so as not to look oversized.

The font size is the same, I was not trying to make the Greek look bad. It
simply does because the two scripts have diverged as time has gone by.

I don't see _any_ advantage to treating Coptic differently from Cyrillic or
Gothic or Etruscan vis à vis Greek. It is a separate script just as they
are. There is a lot of identity between all of the scripts and Greek. Users
will benefit, in my view, from the separation.

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