> > But even so, they had to be separated: similar-looking
> uppercase forms
> > have different corresponding lowercase forms. So as not to
> make case
> > mapping horribly difficult (it's hard enough as it is!),
> Latin, Greek,
> > and Cyrillic had to be non-unified.
>
> Why was Turkish unified, then?
I assume you only mean the various "i"s. Because it was already.
Trying to fix this somehow (other than via not-so-trivial case
mapping rules) would have meant that conversions between older
encodings and Unicode/10646 would have had to be made much more
complex. Putting the complexity here in the not all that often
used case mapping was/is much more practical.
/kent k
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