From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 15:37:18 EDT
At 11:14 -0700 2003-07-15, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>The main reason for separately encoding Coptic, rather than
>maintaining what we now recognize to be a mistaken unification
>with the Greek script, is that it is less useful to people
>who want to represent Coptic texts to have it be encoded
>as a variant of Greek than it is to have it be encoded as a
>distinct script.
Particularly as they regularly write text in both Coptic and Greek
and this distinction is better expressed in plain text than in the
font.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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