On 21 Jun 2013, at 08:23, "Jörg Knappen" <[email protected]> wrote:

> My opinion on the cedilla mess is the following:
>  
> * Add preemptively LATIN [CAPITAL|LOWERCASE] LETTER * WITH CEDILLA ATTACHED 
> for every Latvian/Livonian character currently in UNicode.

Why? Latvian and Livonian don't use letters with "proper" cedilla attached. 

> (Don't use terms like MARSHALLESE [CAPITAL|LOWERCASE] LETTER [M|N] -- such 
> entities don't exist from a character encoding point of view.)

Yes they do. Cf. U+0406 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I. The 
character name exists to distinguish it from other characters and to guide the 
user in the character's use. 

> * Declare the list of exceptions to Cedilla rendering officially closed. 
> Whenever another such thing (say, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P WITH COMMA BELOW / 
> LATIN LOWERCASE LETTER P WITH TURNED COMMA ABOVE) occurs in real life, it 
> will be encoded ... WITH COMMA BELOW.

I think that is understood, but where would you "declare" this?

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/



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