From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 16:08:03 EDT
Andrew C. West wrote on 06/25/2003 09:31:51 AM:
> What I'm suggesting is that although "cui" <0F45, 0F74, 0F72> and "ciu"
<0F45,
> 0F72, 0F74> should be rendered identically, the logical ordering of the
> codepoints representing the vowels may represent lexical differencesthat
would
> be lost during the process of normalisation.
How can things that are visually indistinguishable be lexically different?
We don't encode the phonological distinctions between homographs; we
encode text.
- Peter
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