Re: Glyph Stance

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Title: Re: Glyph Stance

From Mike Ayers: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:34 AM > Nevertheless there is a case (however strong or weak) for > Unicode admitting > mirroring and simple rotation transformations. The phenomenon not only > occurs in some ancient scripts but also in modern Latin > usage, most notably > in advertising.         ...in which case it is being deliberately written incorrectly in order t get attention.  Advertising is not plain text - not even remotely. /|/|ike I am not advocating the introduction of such modfiers, simply that a case can be made. When and if someone makes such a proposal, with adequate presentation of evidence, I'll judge on its merits. Harshly I expect, I heartily dislike the notion of control or modfier codes unless proven absolutely unavoidable.   In the case of Toys <mirror>R</mirror> Us, stating the R is incorrect is a value judgement..   You cannot presume as fact these constructions are 'to get attention', they may be to produce a more pleasing symmetry or communicate meaning, just as the Egyptians had a different notion of writing than is supported by our more functional alphabetic scripts. Although my gut feeling agrees with yours on plain text implications for Latin script, I haven't studied the subject in depth so I may well be wrong.