Kenneth Whistler scripsit: > (Encoded as distinct scripts, by the > way, despite their clear and evident historic relationship > to each other, and despite the fact that Japanese can obviously > read both of them with great facility -- if you guys want to > take that particular bone in your mouth and chew on it for > awhile... consider Kana the 48CEAS *hehe*)
Of course they would have to be. But if the Japanese had ditched their kanji and wrote mostly in hiragana, with katakana used very rarely -- say, about as frequent in running text as italicized foreign words in Latin-script running text -- they might not have bothered to encode them separately. > If it turns out to make the most sense for a default table > to have 22CWSA scripts (as John puts it) sort with interleaved > primary weights, it is technically feasible to generate a > table that way. (Although not for Hebrew versus Arabic versus > Syriac, which are treated distinctly for primary weights now.) Oh, I quite agree. Arabic and Syriac are out of the picture here: too many consonants, too different. > It isn't a foregone conclusion what the UTC and WG2 will do on > this issue -- it, like the encoding of the Phoenician > (~ Old Canaanite, ~ Old West Semitic) script itself, is a > matter for technical debate and decision. Which we are now having the preliminary part of. -- You escaped them by the will-death John Cowan and the Way of the Black Wheel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I could not. --Great-Souled Sam http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
