From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Sat Dec 20 2003 - 16:47:12 EST
Christopher John Fynn
> Envoyé : samedi 20 décembre 2003 20:50
> À : verdy_p@wanadoo.fr
> Cc : Unicode List
> Objet : Re: Aramaic unification and information retrieval
>
>
> > For me two scripts that are different enough so that a text written
> > in one script will have imprecise matches in another, and will be
> > hardly recognizable by readers is a candidate to a separate encoding,
> > because it starts its own family of supplementary letters specific
> > to some families of languages needing these extensions.
>
> On this basis it could be argued that fraktur / black letter
> should be encoded
> separately from latin.
Only if it starts being used with a distinct language or an
exclusive orthograph. Are there different orthographs or word
distinctions possible in fraktur/black letter, that are not
possible with a 1-to-1 mapping to the Latin script? Was a
new orthograph (defined as a spelled enumeration of letters,
independantly of the way letters were vocalized, something that
often varies even within the same written language in the same
script) used with fraktur?
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