On 2017/03/23 22:48, Michael Everson wrote:
Indeed I would say to John Jenkins and Ken Beesley that the richness of the
history of the Deseret alphabet would be impoverished by treating the 1859
letters as identical to the 1855 letters.
Well, I might be completely wrong, but John Jenkins
On 2017/03/23 22:32, Michael Everson wrote:
What is right for Deseret has to be decided by and for Deseret users, rather
than by script historians.
Odd. That view doesn’t seem to be applicable to CJK unification.
Well, it may not seem to you, but actually it is. I have had a lot of
2017-03-24 17:11 GMT+01:00 Michael Everson :
> On 23 Mar 2017, at 22:03, David Starner wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:54 AM Michael Everson
> wrote:
> >> Again: The source of 1855 EW and OI uses *different* letters than the
On 23 Mar 2017, at 22:03, David Starner wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:54 AM Michael Everson wrote:
>> Again: The source of 1855 EW and OI uses *different* letters than the 1859
>> EW and OI do. This wasn’t accidental. It’s not hard to puzzle out
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> But Unicode just prefered to keep the roundtrip compatiblity with
> earlier 8-bit encodings (including existing ISO 8859 and DIN
> standards) so that "ü" in German and French also have the same
> canonical decomposition even if the diacritic is a diaeresis in French
> and
> On 24 Mar 2017, at 19:33, Doug Ewell wrote:
>
> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
>> But Unicode just prefered to keep the roundtrip compatiblity with
>> earlier 8-bit encodings (including existing ISO 8859 and DIN
>> standards) so that "ü" in German and French also have the same
>>
Given the history of characters and the initial desire to be forward
compatible with previous ISO standards, I am convinced that there was no
other choice than preserving the unification, otherwise it would have been
impossible to reliably remap the zillions documents and databases or
applications
On 24 Mar 2017, at 11:34, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
>
> On 2017/03/23 22:48, Michael Everson wrote:
>
>> Indeed I would say to John Jenkins and Ken Beesley that the richness of the
>> history of the Deseret alphabet would be impoverished by treating the 1859
>> letters as
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