On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Karl Pentzlin <[email protected]> wrote: > I have compiled a draft proposal: > Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters > The draft can be downloaded at: > http://www.pentzlin.com/Variation-Sequences-Latin-Cyrillic2.pdf (4.3 MB). > The final proposal is intended to be submitted for the next UTC > starting next Monday (August 9).
Two things jumped out at me on a quick glance. First, I don't see why unspecific forms should be encoded; if you want a nonspecific a, 0061 is the character. Secondly, Fraktur and Antiqua are different writing systems with slightly different orthographies; instead of messing around with variation sequences, just accept that. If they must be distinguished, surely the long-s variation sequence could be used in non-Fraktur fonts, like Blackletter and 18th century-style fonts. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
