From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 13:51:08 CDT
At 03:47 AM 6/10/2004, Michael Everson wrote:
>At 00:11 -0400 2004-06-10, Ernest Cline wrote:
> > [Original Message]
> From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
>
> Practice your tongue-twisting.
>
> Proposal to add Bantu phonetic click characters to the UCS
> http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n2790-clicks.pdf
>
>Why wouldn't U+1D4AC MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT CAPITAL Q
>work for the script capital Q? At the very least I feel that should
>be explained.
>
>It was understood that the mathematical symbols were not to be used in
>language text.
Well this isn't 'language text' as it would be for a modern orthography,
but specialized notation. I see no reason to rule out a unification in this
case. The general category of
this character is 'Lu', letter upper. It does *not* have a case mapping to
/script small q/ but that would be correct as there's not case pair for the
proposed character.
If this was the case of a modern orthography, where case pairs would be
needed, and where development of font and usage could take place over time
in unanticipated directions, then a disunification would make a lot more
sense and I would support it. But for this very limited and technical
notation, it appears unwarranted.
A./
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