Re: Missing old Greek ligature/letter "omicron+upsilon above"

From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 19 2010 - 15:26:06 CDT

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    On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Andrey V. Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru> wrote:
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    > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Raymond Mercier wrote:
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    >> I hope there is no suggestion of encoding the huge variety of Greek
    >> abbreviations and ligatures. The early printed Greek
    >> texts used type designed to follow the manuscripts, but thank goodness
    >> that was dropped before long. There is a bewildering
    >> number of these signs.
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    > There is a lot of free space outside BMP. Why not encode 'em all?

    Because there's no standardization on them and which ligatures to use
    is generally better left up to the font. 

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