On 30/01/2004 09:44, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
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The reason for this is that these are *small capital* variants.
Small capitals were never given compatibility decomposition mappings
in UnicodeData.txt. Thus, because compatibility decomposition
mappings are used for the first, automated cut at tertiary
weighting distinctions, small capitals don't get autoweighted
as tertiary variants. Instead, the input file is generated in
such a way that they get primary weights right after the group
of characters associated with the primary weight of the base
character.
...
Couldn't you just treat the small caps like the mathematical
alphanumeric symbols, as <font> compatibility variants of ordinary
capital letters - which is after all what they are? That would I suppose
make the distinction quaternary, at the code point level only, but I
doubt if that matters. And it would tidy up the collation charts.
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