David J. Perry <perryd at telocity dot com> wrote: > My first answer to my correspondent was "just use Roman h." Then I > got to thinking: are there any situations in Unicode where actual > letters of the alphabet are unified across scripts? There are lots of > punctuation marks and symbols that can be used with multiple scripts; > but I can't think of a situation where an actual letter of the > alphabet is so used. A program that was sorting text, or trying to > determine what script a word was written in, would get confused by > hε̄γεμο̄ν. Would this justify a proposal for "Greek small letter > epigraphical h"?
One classic case of letters being unified across scripts is Kurdish, which uses Latin Q and W in an otherwise all-Cyrillic alphabet. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
