Re: Berber/Tifinagh

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2003 - 13:45:47 EST

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    At 10:14 -0800 2003-11-10, Curtis Clark wrote:

    >Why isn't Latin Serbian just Cyrillic Serbian with funny glyphs?

    Because Latin and Serbian are self-evidently different scripts.

    >I'm not trying to be intentionally dense here; Theban English and
    >Serbian are different in many ways. But are there truly no edge
    >cases, where whim is the only deciding factor? And how does whim
    >turn into policy?

    We can't write meta-rules for everything, Curtis. And it isn't a good
    use of my time, anyway, to try. "Informed whim" if you will.

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    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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