Dean Snyder wrote:
>>It simply doesn't make
sense to me that we should do different things for Semitic than we do for Indic.
Is it not a factor that the Indic "scripts" are in everyday use by living communities?
Not all of them are. It is, however, a factor that the Indic scripts have varying shaping behaviour, not all of which is easily addressable at the glyph level. There is a net benefit to text processing and display in not unifying their encoding.
John Hudson
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