On 3/26/2017 6:18 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
On 26 Mar 2017, at 10:07, Erkki I Kolehmainen <e...@iki.fi> wrote:
I tend to agree with Martin, Philippe and others in questioning the
disunification.
You may, but you give no evidence or discussion about it, so...
In any case it’s not a disunification. Some characters are encoded; they were
used to write diphthongs in 1855. These characters were abandoned by 1859, and
other characters were devised.
Calling them "characters" is pre-judging the issue, don't you think?
We know that these are different shapes, but that they stand for the
same text elements.
A./
The origin of all of the characters as ligatures of other characters isn’t
questioned. The right thing to do is to add the missing characters, not to
invalidate any font that uses the 1855 characters by claiming that the 1855 and
1859 characters are “the same”.
Michael Everson
