Re: IDN problem.... :(

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2005 - 00:42:35 CST

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    John Burger <john at mitre dot org> wrote:

    > I presume you're asking about my head-start comment, rather than the
    > OCR idea. I just meant that the equivalence mappings, etc., provide a
    > clue that some characters are similar in appearance to others.

    That isn't their purpose at all. They show which characters are
    *functionally* equivalent to others.

    > To my surprise the code charts do not seem to indicate that Cyrillic
    > and Latin "a" are related. There is clearly an embarrassing gap in my
    > understanding here - what am I missing?

    They aren't related, except historically. Unicode doesn't care that
    they look the same.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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