RE: Language Tagging And Unicode

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 12:26:51 EST


Ar 04:25 -0800 2000-01-19, scríobh Janko Stamenovic:

>Again I don't see then why Serbian t must be the same character as Russian t
>in Unicode which already spent a lot of different characters for "the same
>thing".

Because it is historically the same character, and because it looks exactly
the same except in some font styles.

And personally, I would like to see a wide range of Serbian printed
examples from the beginning of the era of Serbian printing to the present,
showing that the m-shaped TE and the n-shaped PE are not used, not
recognized, and not desirable in Serbian printing. So far we haven't seen
anything of the kind. I haven't yet checked my own repertoire of sources,
but I will do so as well.

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