Re: Engmagate?

From: Leo Broukhis <leob_at_mailcom.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 18:38:06 -0800

> Italic is not plain text.

Is this the only thing that would have stopped you from advocating
disunification?

> Yeah. To heck with the end user and their pathetic preferences.

Is a preference to have traditional and simplified CJK characters
disunified more or less pathetic (and why) than the preference at hand?

Leo

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com>wrote:

> On 12 Dec 2013, at 22:25, Leo Broukhis <leob_at_mailcom.com> wrote:
>
> > Hmmm... As a person with Russian as the first language I can assure you
> that from any literate Russian-speaking person's perspective italic ū is an
> unacceptable and *WRONG* representation of п (because in Russian, unlike
> Serbian, there is й). Should we bother disunifying?
>
> Italic is not plain text.
>
> > > I suppose nothing will happen until the governments of eng-using
> countries come together with a proposal.
> >
> > Let's hope so. I wish they never do.
>
> <irony>Yeah. To heck with the end user and their pathetic
> preferences.</irony>
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>
>
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