Re: IDN problem.... :(

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2005 - 17:44:47 CST

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    At 15:19 -0800 2005-02-14, D. Starner wrote:

    >It's obvious to you, who is familar with writing scripts and Unicode, that
    >the q in Iraq shouldn't be a Kurdish Q. But if you ask random people whether
    >the Q in Iraq should be Latin or Kurdish, they might reasonably wonder what
    >Latin has to do with Iraq and pick the Kurdish Q.

    David,

    Kurdish is written in three alphabets. It uses, variously, LATIN
    LETTER Q, CYRILLIC LETTER KU, and ARABIC LETTER QAF. There is no
    "Kurdish Q".

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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