On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Andrey V. Lukyanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Raymond Mercier wrote: > >> I hope there is no suggestion of encoding the huge variety of Greek >> abbreviations and ligatures. The early printed Greek >> texts used type designed to follow the manuscripts, but thank goodness >> that was dropped before long. There is a bewildering >> number of these signs. > > > There is a lot of free space outside BMP. Why not encode 'em all?
Because there's no standardization on them and which ligatures to use is generally better left up to the font. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
