Re: polytonic Greek: diacritics above long vowels ᾱ, ῑ, ῡ

> Classical Greek might qualify [for a CLDR entry]

It certainly qualifies, but we require that a submitter commit to
collecting a minimal amount of data before we add it. See
http://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/minimaldata

Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033>
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On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Stephan Stiller
<stephan.stiller_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> On 8/5/2013 11:26 AM, Whistler, Ken wrote:
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> Inclusion of the precomposed characters now seen in the U+1FXX block was part of the price of the merger. What was included was precisely the repertoire requested by Greece, and no attempt was made to further rationalize forms including macrons for Ancient Greek.
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> Thanks, Ken. It's good to know that there is no other reason. Partial
> credit goes to Tom Gewecke who had pointed me off-list to
> http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/ken_adscripts.html
> and the fact that the precomposed set from ISO 10646 can be traced back to
> ELOT (ΕΛΟΤ).
>
> On 8/5/2013 1:25 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
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> Classical Greek might qualify [for a CLDR entry]
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> Yes or no, and I have in fact no(t yet an) opinion on the necessity
> thereof – it's a different question from the one to what extent D matters
> for A *if* A had an entry, but I think we're on the same page at this
> point:
>
>
> On 8/5/2013 1:25 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
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> However, if vowels with macrons had made it into D, then one would expect them in A.
>
> Yep, I agree. A loose analogy and one sensible view (which is in fact
> compatible with yours) is that it's imaginable for say a lexicographer for
> English to have some version of Cyrillic letters available for typesetting
> but defensible for him to not have/use stress marks, whereas any Cyrillic
> typesetting engine within a Cyrillic locale should be able to provide them.
> This made-up example is imperfect, but it might help someone understand the
> thread. That said, I have not yet formed an opinion on whether a font
> intended for a Modern Greek locale should be able to render ᾱ, ῑ, ῡ with
> additional diacritics. (One intended for Ancient Greek should, I think.)
>
> Stephan
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