From: Dr.James Austin (jamesvattekkattu1@vsnl.net)
Date: Sat Nov 19 2005 - 08:20:50 CST
The expression "Exemplar characters" is new , and is intended for a
'table' with accompanying indecision as to what is to be placed on the
table. The requilred answer is offered by Christopher:
> The letters taught as their alphabet (or other type of repertoire) to
> school students with that first language would prima facie be correct.
That should be so for every language.
One suggestion, please: Let there be one "Primary Code" consistinig of the
regular alphabet, and another consisting of all additional characters used
for writing, viz: punctuation marks, arythmetic symbols, logic
symbols,etc.Ideally, these ought to be the 'same' set for all languages, if
possible.That would be the "Universal Code"( This should make matters so
simple). Then there should be a subsidiary set , of characters,if any,
peculiar to the language(not used anywhere other than in that language).Name
it "the Secondary Code" for that language, of course.
James Austin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher JS Vance" <unicode@nu.org>
To: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
Cc: "Unicode Mailing List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: Exemplar Characters
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:52:12PM -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
> >I tend to think of this as a religious war. There will always be those
> >who feel English can be written perfectly well with straight ASCII, and
> >others who feel it cannot be written properly without curly quotes and
> >arrows and symbols and at least four types of dashes and every Latin
> >letter used in a loanword or name that appears in an English sentence.
> >[1] These two groups will never agree on what the "exemplar" characters
> >for a given language are.
>
> The letters taught as their alphabet (or other type of repertoire) to
> school students with that first language would prima facie be correct.
> It's up to the speakers of the language concerned to decide whether
> something is a letter or letter-plus-accent, and we know these
> decisions are inconsistent between languages, and sometimes even in
> the same language across time.
>
> --
> Christopher Vance
>
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