Re: Coptic II?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat Dec 28 2002 - 06:26:00 EST

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At 00:01 -0800 2002-12-27, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>At 10:09 PM 12/25/02 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>> > In fact the glyph for Kurdish Q often looks like a large q, similarly to
>>> Cyrillic h; this is an inappropriate glyph for Latin Q.
>>
>>This should be enough evidence. Any samples?
>
>OK (assuming that this can be substantiated by samples) we now have
>the following score
>
>Legacy data.
>
>Score -1
>
>Fonts
>
>Score: 0.5
>
>Sorting
>
>Score: 0.5
>
>In summary, with the information on capital q the score tends to even out.

Asmus, c'mon.... this "point system" is utterly arbitrary.

KU and WE were used by lots of languages, not just Kurdish by the way.

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