At 02:08 PM 10/25/03 -0700, Doug Ewell wrote:
The Unicode character names attempt to be (a) unique and (b) reasonably mnemonic. Anything beyond that is a bonus. They expressly do *not* represent any form of transliteration or transcription scheme.
That doesn't mean that some of our conventions aren't based on rules related to various transliteration or transcription schemes.
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