Re: Obsolete characters

From: Apostolos Syropoulos (ijdt.editor@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2009 - 06:15:50 CST

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2009/1/15 Mark E. Shoulson <mark@kli.org>

> Mark Davis wrote:
>
>
> U+03D8 <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03D8> ( Ϙ ) GREEK
> LETTER ARCHAIC KOPPA
> U+03D9 <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03D9> ( ϙ ) GREEK
> SMALL LETTER ARCHAIC KOPPA
> U+03DA <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03DA> ( Ϛ ) GREEK
> LETTER STIGMA
> U+03DB <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03DB> ( ϛ ) GREEK
> SMALL LETTER STIGMA
> U+03DC <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03DC> ( Ϝ ) GREEK
> LETTER DIGAMMA
> U+03DD <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03DD> ( ϝ ) GREEK
> SMALL LETTER DIGAMMA
> U+03DE <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03DE> ( Ϟ ) GREEK
> LETTER KOPPA
> U+03DF <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03DF> ( ϟ ) GREEK
> SMALL LETTER KOPPA
> U+03E0 <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03E0> ( Ϡ ) GREEK
> LETTER SAMPI
> U+03E1 <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03E1> ( ϡ ) GREEK
> SMALL LETTER SAMPI
>
> Aren't (some of) these still in common use in Greece for representing
> numbers?
>

I am Greek and I can assure you that all these symbols are necessary. The
following
symbols are not really necesary:

U+03D0 <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03D0> ( ϐ ) GREEK
BETA SYMBOL
U+03D1 <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03D1> ( ϑ ) GREEK
THETA SYMBOL
U+03D5 <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03D5> ( ϕ ) GREEK
PHI SYMBOL

They are typographic variants, but the following two are not just
typographic variants,
thus, they are needed:

U+03D6 <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03D6> ( ϖ ) GREEK PI
SYMBOL
U+03D7 <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=03D7> ( ϗ ) GREEK
KAI SYMBOL

A.S.

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