Re: Major Defect in Combining Classes of Tibetan Vowels

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 16:41:27 EDT

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    Peter asked:

    > How can things that are visually indistinguishable be lexically different?

    chat (en)
    chat (fr)

    > We don't encode the phonological distinctions between homographs; we
    > encode text.

    But I agree that we encode text. Both words above, which are
    *lexically* distinct, would have the same encoded character
    representation, and no amount of inspection of the encoding
    per se is going to distinguish them.

    --Ken

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