From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 10:49:32 EST
Arcane Jill wrote:
<< Would it not make more sense to have not two, but three different kinds of
lowercase i: <non-dotted i>, <soft-dotted i> and <hard-dotted i>?. (And
similarly for uppercase). Of course, then you might as well invent COMBINING
SOFT DOT ABOVE so we can use it elsewhere. >>
It may seem to make more sense, but the trouble with this kind of "solution"
is that it would mean re-encoding a large amout of data, updating operating
systems, applications, fonts, other standards and so on - and all those changes
would cause an unimaginable mess.
There are many things in the Unicode Standard which are the result of it
initially being based on a number of pre-existing character encoding standards
and the need for round trip conversion between those standards and Unicode.
Many things could have been done very differently if this need had not been
there.
- Chris
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