From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 11:00:05 CDT
On 4/30/2008 7:31 AM, Andrew West wrote:
> On 30/04/2008, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
>
>>> To make such a change would create problems for existing digital
>>>
>> documents,
>>
>> Are there any?
>>
>
> There does not appear to be much on the internet, besides short samples such as
>
> <http://kr.geocities.com/tomchiukc/Language/Zhuang/NewOldZhuang.html>
>
> but it is conceivable that there are offline archives of newspapers, etc.
>
> Either way, if there is a corpus of existing digital data using the
> old Zhuang orthography then you don't want to invalidate it by
> disunifying a frequently used letter; and if there isn't any existing
> data then there is no need to disunify as no-one needs to use the
> letter anyway.
>
+1 !!
> Andrew
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