On 05/01/2004 17:37, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
...
Michael Everson has asserted that U+0184/U+0185 *are* the intended
characters for the Pan-Turkic Latin alphabetic use of the Cyrillic
soft sign letter. This is at odds with the history of the Unicode
Standard and with Michael's own prior assertion in:
http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/turkmen.pdf
"Latin <soft sign> [is] not encoded in the UCS, complicating
things like monolingual multiscript ordering since the current
UCS expects Cyrillic <soft sign> to do double duty." [2000-06-02]
That earlier statement by Michael correctly reflects the intent
of the standard, I believe. It also correctly reflects Michael's
observation earlier today:
In Pan-Turkic, though, it looks just like CYRILLIC SOFT SIGN in all
the sources I have seen. For lots of languages.
And the Unicode solution for that, to date, has been that since
it "looks just like" the CYRILLIC SOFT SIGN in all the sources,
by gum, it *is* the CYRILLIC SOFT SIGN.
...
I hope that Ken, Michael and others can agree on a resolution of this
issue. I don't care much either way, although Michael's way seems
preferable to me since we have a suitable Latin letter already encoded.
But, whichever way, please can we have it clearly defined with an
informative note in the standard. After all, it will be a bit tedious
and inefficient if each time someone wants to know which character to
use they have to spark off a new debate on this issue.
--
Peter Kirk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work)
http://www.qaya.org/
