Re: A basic question on encoding Latin characters

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Thu Sep 30 1999 - 11:38:55 EDT

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Ar 08:09 -0700 1999-09-30, scr�obh John Cowan:
>Michael Everson scripsit:
>
>> 1. Do nothing. Leave it to the font makers to make special fonts for Ewe.
>
>And live with the fact that a single Unicode character is sometimes
>alphabetic, sometimes symbolic. Which annoys the makers and users of
>tables.

It seems that the unificiation annoys everyone:

Font makers
Ewes
Makers of tables
Users of tables

So..... Ken is probably right that the straw that breaks the camel's back
might be the character property.

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