From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 18:22:03 EST
At 15:02 -0800 2004-02-18, Peter Constable wrote:
>- What is the potential that later on someone
>will start using h[a~e], or perhaps h[aŮe]!
>(say, to indicate an a-coloured laryngeal that
>in a certain context has become e-coloured)?
Of course such a question cannot be answered.
There are billions of people on our planet.
>- If such usage should arise, how would our
>decision to encode [/] affect how we decide
>about [¯] or [Å®]?
Ignores that parentheses and hyphens are already encoded as subscripts.
>The point is, we don't (or, at least, shouldn't)
>just encode things because we saw them being
>used. We should establish principles (however
>formally or informally stated) that we use to
>guide our decisions. *That* is why Ken cares
>about a possible subscript tilde.
The boundary is what people need to encode, not
whether it fits in with one particular linguist's
view of what merits veto.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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