----- Original Message ----- From: "Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 5:54 PM Subject: Re: Berber/Tifinagh (was: Swahili & Banthu)
> From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > When we encode Tifinagh we will encode Tifinagh. We will not > > meta-encode it for ease of transliteration to other scripts. > > Yes that was the intent of my suggestion, I don't say that this must be > done. But what would be wrong if a font was created for the Tifinagh > script that would display Latin-based glyphs with diacritics rather than > historic glyphs? As long as the font is explicitly advertized as a 'font with built-in transliterator', as long as the people know that what you see is not what is in the text, this seems to me indeed a good idea. Would be nice for Klingon too :-)
