Re: Language Tagging And Unicode

From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 12:22:33 EST


Am 1909-1-6 um 6:10 hat Robert A. Rosenberg geschrieben:
> Russian PE does not OCCUR in Serbian - Its function is served by the
> Serbian letter PE (and so forth). There is just as much difference between
> the two PEs as there is between "s" and "long s" in German.

No, no, no. Please do not compare apples with pears!

                    | Apples: | Pears:
                    | Cyrillic letter PE | Long and round s
--------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------
Languages involved | between languages | within single language
--------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------
Nature of difference| glyph variant | orthographic
--------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------
Fonts involved | only italic & cursive;| all fonts, even Antiqua;
                    | NOT in roman | mainly Fraktur & German
                    | | cursive (handwriting)
--------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------
Plain text | no visible difference | difference (iff
                    | | historic orthography
                    | | is applied)

Most of these points have been made recently, backed up with exapmples.
Hence, I really do not understand how anybody could perceive as much
difference in the apple column as in the pears column.

Best wishes,
   Otto Stolz



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