From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 19 2009 - 12:28:09 CDT
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Julian
Bradfield<jcb+unicode@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> The argument is that IPA and Greek letters are *logically
> separate* letters, and should therefore be encoded separately, for the
> sake of data processing on them.
I don't buy it. It is trivial for an algorithm to tell that aβs is
IPA; it's impossible for an algorithm or even a human to tell whether
abs is IPA or plain old Latin characters. In my particular version of
Cleanicode, I would disunify IPA from Latin, but in the real world ,
if you're doing data processing on IPA, you've tagged it, either
explicitly or implicitly. What data processing are you doing that aβs
is a problem but not abs?
-- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
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