On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:43:14 +0000 James Kass via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> Now what if we were future historians given the task of encoding both > of those strings, from two different sources, and had no idea what > those two strings were supposed to represent? Wouldn't it be best to > preserve both strings intact, as they were originally written? In general, it is not possible to encode text in Unicodeif one has no knowledge of what the text itself represents. Some English typewriters did not distinguish digit ‘0’ from capital letter ‘O’ or digit ‘1’ from small letter ‘l’. Richard.