From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 16:27:53 CDT
At 14:43 -0500 2005-05-20, Alexander Kh. wrote:
>What I meant is for example, strange "semisoft sign" 048C which looks
>same as Yate 0462. Is that someone's joke?
No, it is a character used in Kildin Sami, and it differs from the Yat.
>Or, for example letter 047C - Omega with titlo: why separate letter if
>titlo is defined separately 0483 (is there a stateless way to encode a
>titlo that spans several letters?). Next letter, however, 047E is indeed
>a separate letter, and it is read as "ot" in text.
That was a mistake and should not have been encoded. I don't know how
it got into the standard. It was before my tenure.
>This is all while numeric titlo is missing alltogether: how would you
>write Old Slavonic numerals in Unicode?
With U+0483?
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