Re: Cuneiform Free Variation Selectors

From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 18 2004 - 21:26:19 EST

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    Michael Everson wrote at 12:53 AM on Monday, January 19, 2004:

    >My dislike of variation selectors as a form of pseudo-coding is not
    >confined to Mongolian.

    Is your dislike shared by Mongolian encoding specialists, or the other
    users of variation selectors you hint at?

    Is there a significant body of happy users of Mongolian encodings that
    use free variation selectors - Unicode or otherwise? (I gather from the
    Unicode Standard that legacy encodings of Mongolian also have mechanisms
    similar to Unicode's free variation selectors.)

    Respectfully,

    Dean A. Snyder

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