On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 15:27:08 -0700 Stephan Stiller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/4/2013 2:59 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: > > The CLDR does not yet support Ancient Greek! [...] Vowels with > > plain COMBINING BREVE and COMBINING MACRON don't make to the list > > of auxiliary exemplar characters for Modern Greek. > This is a non-sequitur; why would they for Modern Greek (Dimotiki), > and how would that have exemplary/precedential bearing for Ancient > Greek? Most of the polytonic precomposed vowels are in the auxiliary exemplars for Modern Greek. One doesn't use the vowels with breve and macron for writing Ancient Greek in plain text; one uses them for writing about it. It depends on what criteria get applied for the CLDR entry. A CLDR entry could get rather silly when deciding on the Attic, Ionic and Doric Greek for Yoruba and !Xu - Cambodia's going to be bad enough. Do we look for the Ancient Greek representation of Kambuja? Richard.
