> On 28 May 2018, at 11:05, Julian Bradfield via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > wrote: > > On 2018-05-28, Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: >>> On 28 May 2018, at 03:39, Garth Wallace <gwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> wrote: >>>> The flats and sharps of Arabic music are semantically the same as in >>>> Western music, departing from Pythagorean tuning, then, but the microtonal >>>> accidentals are different: they simply reused some that were available. > ... >>> The fact that they do not denote the same width in cents in Arabic music as >>> they do in Western modern classical does not matter. That sort of precision >>> is not inherent to the written symbols. >> >> It is not about precision, but concepts. Like B, Β, and В, which could have >> been unified, but are not. > > Latin, Greek, Cyrillic etc. could not have been unified, because of the > requirement to have round-trip compatibility with previous encodings.
Indeed, in Unicode because of that, which I pointed out. > It is also, of course, convenient for many reasons to have the notion > of "script" hard-coded into unicode code-points, instead of in > higher-level mark-up where it arguably belongs - just as, when > copyright finally expires, it will be convenient to have Tolkien's > runes disunified from historical runes (which is the line taken by the > proposal waiting for that day). Whether it is so convenient to have a > "music script" notion hard-coded is presumably what this argument is > about. It's not obvious to me that musical notation is something that > carries the "script" baggage in the same way that writing systems do. Indeed, that is what I also pointed out. So I suggested to contact the SMuFL people which might inform about the underlying reasoning, and then make a decision about what might be suitable for Unicode. They probably have them separate for the same reason as for scripts: originally different fonts encodings, but those are not official, and in addition it is for music engraving, and not writing in text files.
