On 5/29/2018 1:08 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2018 21:40:49 -0700
> Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
>
>> But such exceptions prove the rule, which leads back to where we
>> started: the default position is that Unicode encodes a character
>> identity that is not the same as encoding the concept that said
>> character is used to represent in writing.
> And the problem remains that of determining the 'identity'. It is
> rather like distinguishing species - biologists have dozens of
> different concepts.
>
> Richard.
>
Totally. Never said that encoding is a simple algorithmic process. :)
A./
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