On 06/05/2015 21:06, David Carlisle wrote: > On 6 May 2015 at 20:15, Philip Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >> >>> It seems to me that most people have no idea what Unicode is and what is >>> really >>> involved. >> >> OK, so if we restrict the Universe of Discourse to the set of native >> Hellenic speakers who know what Unicode is, know the importance of being >> able to use it to identify the correct upper case of (for example) >> 'GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI', and hold an informed opinion on >> the matter, would you expect that 100% of these would agree that the >> uppercase is 'GREEK LETTER EPSILON' and not 'GREEK LETTER EPSILON WITH >> PSILI', or would you expect that some percentage (perhaps small) would >> hold the opposite point of view ? >> >> ** Phil. >> > > I don't think that's the right question. Even if everyone, including > the Unicode technical committee, > agreed some properties are incorrect for some characters, it isn't > clear we should change > them at this level. > > I think that unicode-letters.def makes most sense as a > fully automated representation of the UCD data files in TeX syntax. > > That way everyone knows what data is in there. > > Individual language packages have far fewer characters to worry about > and can over-ride > the base settings where appropriate.
Indeed: provided hyphenation is correct then we are OK. (LuaTeX of course is rather more flexible there than XeTeX.) -- Joseph Wright -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
