From: "John Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 'Careful hairsplitting' always takes place when people care about typography.
How very true. On one hand, there's people who put a cedilla under "a" when typesetting Polish, on the other hand, there's people who adjust the vertical position of hyphens when typesetting all-caps. And there's lot in-between. But it is important to realize that there _always_ were people who adjusted the hyphen in all-caps settings. Gutenberg's own typesetting was careful hairsplitting. This is a very typical and essential dilemma, which is one of the reasons why there is no easy answer to the glyph vs. character question, or more precisely, why the "character" definition in Unicode is so, well, vague. Since the decision on what is a "character" and what is "merely" a "glyph variant" is made somewhat arbitrarily (albeit in a committee process). There are far too many exceptions to the rule for Unicode to be consistent and easy-to-use. But since written human language never was consistent and easy-to-use, I guess it's something very natural and we will all live with that. Adam
