Michael Everson wrote at 2:53 PM on Friday, May 21, 2004: >At 05:30 +0000 2004-05-21, James Kass wrote: > >>As a member of the Latin script user community, I'd not be threatened by >>a separate encoding for Fraktur.
Would you recommend, for example, Google for ubiquitous searching for textually-intended, but mathematically-encoded, Fraktur alongside Roman German text? >>I have Fraktur books in my library. >>Whether I've got their titles stored in my database using Latin characters >>or abusing math variables is best left to speculation. > >We already have a Fraktur range. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf No, in a range of encoded symbols you have a "MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR ..." range. You also have here a "MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT ..." range of characters that have their Latin textual analogs - why don't you, by analogy, encode the Fraktur textual characters? Only THAT, in our current context, would be "a Fraktur range". Answer that question and you will not be evading my point about the Fraktur/Phoenician analogy. Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 cell: 717 817-4897 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
