I tend to agree with Martin, Philippe and others in questioning the disunification.
Sincerely, Erkki I. Kolehmainen -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] Puolesta Martin J. Dürst Lähetetty: 26. maaliskuuta 2017 11:12 Vastaanottaja: verd...@wanadoo.fr; David Starner Kopio: Michael Everson; unicode Unicode Discussion Aihe: Re: Standaridized variation sequences for the Desert alphabet? On 2017/03/26 11:24, Philippe Verdy wrote: > Thats a good point: any disunification requires showing examples of > contrasting uses. Fully agreed. We haven't yet heard of any contrasting uses for the letter shapes we are discussing. > Now depending on individual publications, authors would use one > character or the other according to their choice, and the encoding > will respect it. If we need further unification for matching texts in > the samer language across periods of time or authors, collation (UCA) > can provide help: this is already what it does in modern German with > the digram "ae" and the letter "ä" which are orthographic variants not > distinguished by the language but by authors' preference. Well, in most cases, but not e.g. for names. Goethe is not spelled Göthe. Regards, Martin.
