From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2004 - 19:30:01 EST
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of Ernest Cline
> TH WITH STRIKETHROUGH
> ITALIC TH LIGATED BY HOOK
> PLAIN TH LIGATED BY CROSSBAR
>
> three separate glyphic representations of the same character
>
> LEXICOGRAPHIC VOICED TH
No; three separate character representations of the same orthographic
function.
> Now if one were to take a dictionary that used any one of those
> three forms mentioned above and consistently replaced one
> glyph with another throughout the dictionary, would there truly
> be any difference in the text?
Me thinks the editorial staff of a given dictionary publisher that needs
to maintain it's conventions across different editions will certainly
say "yes".
Peter
Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division
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