> There are oceans of data out there with ABCDEF used already. What doyou propose to do about that?
Nothing. This is not my problem, and I find it irrelevant.
That attitude is why it might be good that you don't have a vote. Even I, who have worked successfully to undo "silly" unifications, have to address the legacy data issue.
The arguments made in Ricardo's document are clear, concise, and absolutely spot on.
Uh. His arguments are pretty poor. He begins with the assumption that digits are monowidth, for instance, and goes from there to saying "and so we need digit-width letters". But digits aren't always monowidth, and indeed in AAT and OT fonts you can have spacing and non-spacing glyphs for the same coded digits anyway, so of course you can do the same for the letters A-F.
As far as needing a Numeric property for some form of A-F, well, we haven't needed one for the past few decades, now, have we?
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