On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:36:22AM +0000, David Starner wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:30 PM Adam Borowski via Unicode < > [email protected]> wrote: > > þ or ą count the same as LATIN TURNED CAPITAL > LETTER SAMPI WITH HORNS AND TAIL WITH SMALL LETTER X WITH CARON. > > þ is in Latin-1, and ą is in Latin-A; the first is essential, even in its > marginal characters, and the second is pretty consistently useful in the > modern world. I don't see the problem or solution here; if something > supports a good chunk of the Arabic block, then it supports Arabic, and if > you need Persian and it supports Urdu instead, or vice versa, that's no > comfort.
I probably used a bad example: scripts like Cyrillic (not even Supplement) include both essential letters and those which are historic only or used by old folks in a language spoken by 1000, who use Russian (or English...) for all computer use anyway -- all within one block. What I'm thinking, is that a beautiful font that covers Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Kazakh, Mongolian cyr, etc., should be recommended to users before one whose only grace is including every single codepoint. > Too bad, that wouldn't work for symbols, or for dead scripts: a good runic > > font will have a complete coverage of elder futhark, anglo-saxon, younger > > and medieval, while only a completionist would care about franks casket or > > Tolkien's inventions. > > Where as I might guess that the serious users of Tolkien's runic might > rival or outnumber the users of the scripts for other purposes; after all, > Anglo-Saxon and other languages that appeared in Runic all have standard > Latin orthographies that are more suitable for scholarly purposes. Hasn't Tolkien moved to Cirth soon after (excuse my ignorance)? Not sure if I understand your advice right: you're recommending to ignore all the complexity and going with just raw count of in-block coverage? This could work: a released font probably has codepoints its author considers important. ᛗᛖᛟᚹ! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Vat kind uf sufficiently advanced technology iz dis!? ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- Genghis Ht'rok'din ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
