Re: Unicode 3.0 press statements

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 13:58:54 EST


Ar 10:33 -0800 2000-01-20, scríobh John Cowan:
>"Mark E. Davis" wrote:
>
>> Out of curiosity, which characters are missing from Unicode for Cyrillic
>> Kurdish?
>
>Mr. Everson and I believe that the use of Latin characters in Cyrillic
>Kurdish is a violation of the script-separation principle. We don't
>merge Latin and Cyrillic A, so why Latin and Cyrillic Q?

It also causes problems for processing of Kurdish, which may be written in
both Latin and Cyrillic.

>That's
>even apart from the fact that Cyrillic Q has glyph variants that
>are outside the plausible range of Latin Q.

Yesssssss.

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