Re: Searching for Multiscript Words

At 08:36 -0400 2002-09-24, John Cowan wrote:

> > 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.
>
>Hey, I wasn't there when they did it.

And it took me about 7 years of constant argument to get them
disunified. Perhaps we can get the same thing with Cyrillic KU and WE.

>
>> Are they going to do the same with Gothic? The two
>> Slavic scripts?
>
>No and no. Gothic and Cyrillic are separately encoded; Glagolitic is not yet
>encoded but will be represented separately.

I don't think Glagolitic is very Greek-based. Not its glyphs anyway. ;-)
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
48B Gleann na Carraige; Cill Fhionntain; Baile Átha Cliath 13; Éire
Telephone +353 86 807 9169 * * Fax +353 1 832 2189 (by arrangement)