From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 13:22:15 EST
Peter_Constable@sil.org scripsit:
> So, the question is this: Should we say that this writing system is
> completely Latin (keeping the norm that orthographic writing systems use a
> single script) and apply the principle of unification -- across languages
> but not across scripts -- to imply that we need to encode new characters,
> Latin delta, Latin theta and Latin yeru? Or, do we say that this writing
> system is only *mostly* Latin-based, and that it mixes in a few characters
> from other scripts?
The Kurdish precedent suggests the latter (Kurdish is Cyrillic but uses Q and
W from Latin), but some of us think that was wrongly decided and should be
overruled. (IANAL, TINLA.)
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