Re: Unicode 3.0 press statements

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 06:14:47 EST


Ar 15:52 -0800 2000-01-20, scríobh Mark E. Davis:
>Only if you are a strict scriptist. Otherwise, those are encoded in Latin1,
>right?

They are NOT encoded in the Universal Character Set, Mark, and we have gone
over this again and again with the same arguments. Multiscript unilingual
data in Kurdish cannot be correctly processed making Latin Q and W do
double duty in two different scripts, the unification was bogus, and we
need to add the two characters to the UCS.

>Michael Everson wrote:
>
>> Ar 06:44 -0800 2000-01-20, scríobh Mark E. Davis:
>> >Out of curiosity, which characters are missing from Unicode for Cyrillic
>> >Kurdish?
>>
>> CYRILLIC LETTER KU and CYRILLIC LETTER WE.

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