On 30/10/2018 at 18:59, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote: > > Marcel Schneider wrote: > > > This use case is different from the use case that led to submit > > the L2/18-206 proposal, cited by Dr Ewell on 29/10/2018 at 20:29: > > I guess this is intended as a compliment.
Right. > While many of the people you > quoted do have doctoral degrees, many others of us do not. Making a safe distinction is beyond my knowledge, safest is not to discriminate. > > > E.g. small caps is out of scope, given the postcard writer did not > > write the names in small caps, that in Latin script are merely a > > stylistic convention intended for scientific publication and so on — > > while Cyrillic script currently uses “small caps” to write in > > lowercase. > > You're joking, right? No, I wasn’t, nowhere. > > Аа Бб Ее Рр > > This undermines a lot of what you are claiming to know about writing > systems, and about the difference between case distinctions and styling. Unfortunately, yes. My apologies to all Cyrillic scriptors hurted while I assumed that every Cyrillic capital letter is a big version of its lowercase. It’s ironic, given I worked hard to revise the French nameslist, including the Cyrillic block, where I propose to make more subdivisions, the actual heading scheme seems to me as not being respectful enough. Sorry. Marcel
