Addison Phillips [wM] wrote:
> Obviously I'm not an expert in these linguistic areas (and hence
> rarely comment on them), but it seems to me that the lack of other
> mechanisms makes Unicode an attractive target for criticism in this
> area.
Certainly no Unicode-bashing was intended (I'm more of a Unicode
evangelist). I guess I'm confused about the use of Unicode character
properties. Are you saying that, even though Unicode defines U+0027 as
punctuation, other, I could use it as a glottal stop and create a locale
that would treat it as a letter (and still be "Unicode compliant",
whatever that is?). And if that's the case, are the Unicode properties
just guides? Could I develop an orthography where Yβяبձ⁋ would be a
word, and there would be no consequences?
-- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Mockingbird Font Works http://www.mockfont.com/
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