On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:46:27 am Terry Reedy wrote: > 3. Unicode disclaims direct representation of glyphic variants > (though again, exceptions were made for asian acceptance). For > example, in English, mechanically printed 'a' and 'g' are different > from manually printed 'a' and 'g'. Representing both by the same > codepoint, in itself, loses information. One who wishes to preserve > the distinction must instead use a font tag or perhaps a > <handprinted> tag. Similarly, older English had a significantly > different glyph for 's', which looks more like a modern 'f'.
An unfortunate example, as the old English long-s gets its own Unicode codepoint. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
