From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 16:47:01 CDT
At 00:25 +0400 2005-05-14, Alexander Savenkov wrote:
>Indeed the Glagolitic script encoding proposal by Mr. Everson and Mr.
>Clemenson contains a number of errors and inaccuracies.
Dr Cleminson is professional Slavic linguistics, and the Glagolitic
proposal was reviewed by many specialists.
At 06:27 -0500 2005-05-13, Alexander Kh. wrote:
>And hence, the ordering of letters should not be taken from Greek ordering.
The order of the letters in the code table is traditionally found in
numerous materials.
>This is the ordering of all 45 letters as they teach in Seminary:
There are different extant orders. The one we chose may be a bit of a
compromise.
The order of the characters in the code table cannot be changed.
>1.One letter is missing: it is letter Uk that looks like this:
>O_
>O
>
>(two overlapping circles one on top of another with a stick coming
>from the middle to the right side of the letter).
If a character is really missing it may be added.
>2.Another major concern: variants of the glyphs. There are not
>many of them so why not include them into the standard?
Because they are just glyph variants.
>Major font makers include them anyway, so why should they stay in an
>"illegal" status?
There is the character/glyph model to consider.
>The difference is that letter Kako means "how" and the one with missing
>part has a function of question connotation in the sentence, replacing
>need of a question mark which was not there originally.
If you can be more specific, offline, perhaps there is a case to be made.
>missing letter Init' (i with double dots in Cyrillic)
If you can be more specific, offline, perhaps there is a case to be made.
>3. So-called "Spidery Ha" is called Ho'lmo'
Western scholars call it Spidery Ha, but we would be interested in
seeing evidence for a more specific name.
>4. Everson's letter i is actually "izhe", it's numeric value is 20;
>5. Everson's letter INITIAL IZHE is actually "init", numeric value 10;
I will ask Dr Cleminson for his view on this.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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