Re: Major Defect in Combining Classes of Tibetan Vowels

From: Andrew C. West (andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 19:04:34 EDT

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    On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:41:27 -0700 (PDT), Kenneth Whistler wrote:

    >
    > Peter asked:
    >
    > > How can things that are visually indistinguishable be lexically different?
    >
    > chat (en)
    > chat (fr)

    And if Unicode reordered vowels in front of consonants, then we wouldn't be able
    to distinguish :

    chat (en)
    chat (fr)
    acht (de)

    Andrew



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