On 27 Mar 2017, at 05:58, James Kass <jameskass...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Asmus Freytag wrote, > >> In the current case, you have the opposite, to wit, the text elements are >> unchanged, but you would like to add alternate code elements >> to represent what are, ultimately, the same text elements. That's not >> disunification, but dual encoding. > > If spelling a word with an x+y string versus a z+y string represents two > different spellings of the same word, then hand printing the same > word with either an x/y ligature versus a z/y ligature also represents two > different spellings of the same word.
Asmus also changes the terms of the discussion by introducing the vague and undefined term “text element”. Michael Everson
