Re: Historical Cyrillic in Unicode

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Aug 22 2005 - 16:02:29 CDT

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    At 20:25 +0400 2005-08-22, Alexej Kryukov wrote:

    >Here I mean so-called letter-titlos, i. e. superscript letters
    >written above the word they belong to. These characters are quite
    >similar to Latin superscript letters in the combining marks block
    >(0363--036f), but some of them are usually combined with titlo
    >(hence the name), which, however, has a different shape in this
    >case. Church Slavonic has quite strict rules which require specific
    >words to be written with letter-titlos rather than with
    >regular inline letters.

    Ah, my mistake. I misunderstood you. I would tend to agree with you
    that there is a case for encoding these characters; I do know the
    case you refer to, and it is analogous to Latin medievalist combining
    letters.

    > > I have written to the site and told them that they may point to
    > > http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n2xxx-cyrillic.pdf if
    > > they wish.
    >
    >Well, I think the site owner will be happy to know that the ideas
    >represented in this document are not completely abandoned.

    Work on this has been a question of scheduling resources, as I said.

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


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