Re: Searching for Multiscript Words

John Cowan wrote:

>
> =?iso-8859-1?B?4Yuz4YqV4Yqk4YiNIOGLq+GLleGJhuGJpQ==?= scripsit:
>
> > I was just considering word boundaries and thought that a change of
> > script should indicate the start of a new word (assume a space somehow
> > vanished). But are there any exceptions to the rule?
>
> In Kurdish, Q and W are Latin letters, while all else is Cyrillic.
> You may think Unicode is in error here (I do), but that's the way it
> currently is encoded.
>
> Coptic has only six unique letters and otherwise recycles Greek. Unicode
> is committed to making this go away eventually.

That doesn't make sense; on the one hand, the Coptic letters are shaped
differently from the Greek, and on the other, Coptic is a system où tout
se tient, and Greek is a system où tout se tient, and mixed together
they should not be. Are they going to do the same with Gothic? The two
Slavic scripts?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...