On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:35 AM, William_J_G Overington <wjgo_10...@btinternet.com> wrote: > It does not seem axiomatic that accented characters for Esperanto would > necessarily be included in a digital encoding of the accented characters > needed for the languages of Europe.
Where does languages of Europe come from? Latin Extended-A is not designed to exclusively cover Europe, and both ISO 8859-3 and Extended-A cover Turkish. The largest Esperanto libraries have about 25,000 books, and there's a large collection of people wanting to use Esperanto on the Internet; moreover, the encoding decision is trivial, being a simple and uncontested set of twelve codepoints. Of all the Latin script characters not encoded in Unicode 1.1, I doubt any of them have 1% the use of the Esperanto characters. Not encoding them upfront would have been silly. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode