And these two cases are hardly a good advertisement for the expert's reputation. The Coptic/Greek unification proved to be ill-advised and is being undone. As for the unified W and Q, well, I guess that if the Kurds and others who use these letters in Cyrillic knew how this decision would mean that their alphabet will never be sorted correctly (unless they get round to tailoring their collations), they would make a strongly argued case for disunification. Well, perhaps the expert can feel how much his fingers have been burned by over-unification and so is now pressing for everything to be disunified.I think one's track record in making judgments on boundary cases is established only after having successfully dealt with boundary cases -- and enough to establish a level of confidence. Of things already in Unicode, what have been boundary cases between unificiation and de-unification?
The unified Latin-but-not-Cyrillic w & q (if I've recalled the two letters correctly) and Coptic/Greek characters are the only prior boundary cases I can think of.
Peter
And then there is the matter of CJK unification, which I gather is still rather contentious.
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