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. ;-)
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