From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Thu Dec 25 2003 - 05:36:00 EST
D. Starner wrote:
> Philippe Verdy wrote:
> > The absence of consensus for the orthograph is not a good reason,
>
> A standard that will serve forever shouldn't be encoding drafts that
> will change tomorrow or next month and no one will actually use.
> Unicode should only encode characters that have actually seen use,
> not that might see use.
I said "orthograph", not "letters".
The characters in question are already in use in printed books and
various online publications or handwritten and artistic forms, even if
the orthograph is not fixed.
In fact the orthograph is probably not fixed in any language, and it
evolves over time by admitting common spelling errors...
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