From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Dec 24 2002 - 07:54:20 EST
At 11:44 +0000 2002-12-24, John Clews wrote:
>However, just out of interest, is there a brief rationale from those
>involved in UTC as to why that separation of Greek and Coptic is a
>"good thing"
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2444.pdf
>while any proposal to add a Cyrillic Q and W, and to have a separate
>sequence for Georgian Nuskhuri letters (as well as for the existing
>Georgian Mkhedruli letters and Georgian Asomtavruli letters) would
>be a "bad thing"?
Mostly it has to do with inertia and attachment to earlier (false)
unifications. Having said that, it remains for appropriate papers to
be written to convince the hard-liners of the wisdom of these
disunifications. That takes time and effort.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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