On 25 Mar 2017, at 22:15, David Starner <[email protected]> wrote: > > And I'd argue that a good theoretical model of the Latin script makes ä, ꞛ > and aͤ the same character, distinguished only by the font.
Fortunately for the users of our standard, we don’t do this. > This is complicated by combining characters mostly identified by glyph, and > the fact that while ä and aͤ may be the same character across time, there are > people wanting to distinguish them in the same text today, and in both cases > the theoretical falls to the practical. In this case, there are no combining > character issues and there's nobody needing to use the two forms in the same > text. I’m fairly sure that a person citing a medieval document using aͤ may very well also need to write this alongside Swedish or German using ä. Michael Everson
