Re: Name of Greek block (was: Re: Greek tonos and oxia)

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At 01:21 AM 7/1/2004, Peter Kirk wrote:
>On 30/06/2004 16:35, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>
>>>the versions in the main Greek and Coptic block (or has it been
>>>officially renamed just "Greek"?)
>>>
>>
>>No, the block name won't be changed, in part because changing
>>block names is another destabilization in the standard that
>>really serves nobody well, but mostly because the existing
>>14 Coptic letters derived from Demotic will continue to
>>be in that block, regardless.
>>
>>--Ken
>>
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>I asked partly because the name listed at http://www.unicode.org/charts/
>is now just "Greek" when I think it was formerly "Greek and Coptic". But
>maybe my memory is faulty because that page has not been updated since
>last October.

That's a bug on the page listing the blocks. Thanks for noticing.

A./

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