Re: Cyrillic inclusions and exclusions in Unicode 3.0 beta

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Sat Jul 10 1999 - 06:10:49 EDT


Ar 16:33 -0700 1999-07-09, scr�obh Kenneth Whistler:
>John Clews asked:

>> Is this OK? Can Kildin Sami manage without these
>> characters?
>
>Without those *particular* characters, yes, because the particular
>characters that were introduced in Amendment 31 were not recognized
>or accepted as Kildin Sami characters by the Kildin Sami experts!
>That was the problem. They needed both glyph *and* name changes to
>match Sami requirements -- effectively a complete recoding of the
>characters. This will be accomplished in due time by specific, and correct
>additions in a future amendment to 10646.

What Ken means is yes, Kildin S�mi can manage without EM WITH DESCENDER
because they don't use EM WITH DESCENDER. They use EM WITH TAIL. So Kildin
S�mi will not be covered by Unicode 3.0. Details and glyphs will be found
in the Irish ballot on FPDAM 31.

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