Re: Ligatures in Turkish and Azeri, was: Accented ij ligatures

From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 12:43:38 EDT

  • Next message: Philippe Verdy: "Re: Ligatures in Turkish and Azeri, was: Accented ij ligatures"

    On 11/07/2003 08:51, Philippe Verdy wrote:

    >On Friday, July 11, 2003 3:50 PM, Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>So I hope that what is fixed by Unicode is the name not
    >>of two languages but of an extensible family of scripts.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >I think you speak about family of languages?
    >
    Not really. A set of languages, but they are not all related in any way,
    and many of them have more than one script or alphabet so this is not
    really a property of the languages. Perhaps "set of alphabets" would be
    a better way to put it.

    >
    >Good luck with ISO language codes which does not even
    >define them, and contain many duplicate codes even in
    >the Alpha-2 space (he/iw, in/id), or unprecize codes
    >matching sometimes very imprecize families of languages
    >overlapping other language codes...
    >
    >Until it is demonstrated that a language needs such fix
    >in Unicode support tables, ...
    >
    If necessary I can collect some data to demonstrate this, at least for
    some languages.

    >... it's best to just say that these
    >fixes are needed for some recognized language codes and
    >that applications are allowed to add their own "fixes" or
    >language tailorings, and that the existing language
    >tailorings in Unicode databases are just non-normative
    >samples.
    >
    >-- Philippe.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    Agreed. But does Unicode actually treat them as non-normative samples?

    -- 
    Peter Kirk
    peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com
    http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
    


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