From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Thu Nov 13 2003 - 20:43:03 EST
D Starner asked:
> Jim Allan <jallan@smrtytrek.com> writes:
>
> > Perhaps rather than "cipher" one should say that Unicode does not encode
> > separately scripts or systems intended solely as transliterations of
> > other scripts. Ciphers are a common example of such scripts and systems.
>
> What about 1E62/3, 135E/F and 1E6E/1E6F?
Those are letters of the Latin script which are used
primarily in transliteration. (Note that other letters of
the Latin script, including 'a', 'b', 'c', ... are *also*
used in transliteration.)
The Latin *script* was not encoded solely because it is used
in transliteration of other scripts. The fact that some
characters in the Latin script got into the encoding
because of somebody's transliteration conventions is
irrelevant.
--Ken
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Thu Nov 13 2003 - 21:37:51 EST