Re: Old Hungarian at SC2/WG2

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Mar 27 2009 - 07:12:54 CST

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    On 27 Mar 2009, at 12:27, Karl Pentzlin wrote:

    > This position is strongly supported by the German comments to PDAM7,
    > which explicitly request the inclusion of Old Hungarian.

    Those comments are out of scope of the PDAM however.

    > Germany favors to encode the eight ligatures which
    > correspond to single Latin letters:
    > U+10CF0 OLD HUNGARIAN CAPITAL LETTER Q
    > U+10CF1 OLD HUNGARIAN CAPITAL LETTER W
    > U+10CF2 OLD HUNGARIAN CAPITAL LETTER X
    > U+10CF3 OLD HUNGARIAN CAPITAL LETTER Y
    > U+10CF4 OLD HUNGARIAN SMALL LETTER Q
    > U+10CF5 OLD HUNGARIAN SMALL LETTER W
    > U+10CF6 OLD HUNGARIAN SMALL LETTER X
    > U+10CF7 OLD HUNGARIAN SMALL LETTER Y

    These are all duplicate characters, as all can be composed as
    ligatures. If these are encoded, there will be ambiguity between the
    "precomposed" letters and the normal ligatures.

    > as in the context of the concurrent use of the script
    > with the Latin script, there especially names written
    > in Latin must be able to be represented uniquely
    > and reversibly in the Old Hungarian script, not
    > confined to names which are inherently Hungarian.

    Old Hungarian is not a cipher for the Latin alphabet.

    >

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



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