On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:48:23AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> my opinion (not that i'm entitled to one here) is
> that the unicode guys screwed up. unicode is not
> consistant. explain why there are two code points sigma.
> 03c3 greek small letter sigma
> 03c2 greek small letter final sigma
They are distinct in ancient greek at least. The glyph is not the same
whether the letter is inside or at the end of a word. (At the beginning,
in ancient greek, there was indeed no blanks between words but just a
stream of chars...)
Or perhaps did I misunderstand what you wrote.
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