Re: Superscript asterisk

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat Jul 03 1999 - 05:09:18 EDT


Ar 13:29 -0500 1999-07-02, scríobh Scott Horne:
>> >Now for text, this is a terrible way to do things, since here operations
>> >such as case transformations and sorting are common and A and ALPHA
>> >capitalize and sort differently. And usually they are not intermixed in the
>> >same word.
>>
>> Which is why we need CYRILLIC LETTER KU (Qq) and CYRILLIC LETTER WE (Ww)
>> for Kurdish.
>
>And why we need Latin tone-letters 3 and 4 (upper- and lower-case) for
>Zhuang4 rather than the Cyrillic letters that happen to look similar.

Hear, hear.

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