On 26 Mar 2017, at 17:02, Asmus Freytag <asm...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > On 3/26/2017 6:18 AM, Michael Everson wrote: > >> 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?
No, I don’t think so. > We know that these are different shapes, but that they stand for the same > text elements. No, they don’t. Those diphthongs can also be represented in other ways in Deseret. I’ve never accepted the view that “everything is already encoded and everything new is a disunification” which seems to be a pretty common view. Michael Everson
