Peter T. Daniels scripsit:

> Wouldn't "Latin script" be just the 23 letters and no punctuation used
> for Latin?

I should prefer to refer to that as the Latin alphabet[*], and reserve
the term "Latin script" for the inclusive system of approximately 170
base characters and 65 productive diacritics (one can jigger with these
figures by recognizing more diacritics and fewer bases or vice versa).

But of course all terminology issues are basically about convenience,
and different people have different needs. Tex was asking in the
context of internationalized programming.

[*] Or one phase of it: an earlier phase lacked "G", and a later phase
makes case distinctions and treats "U" and "V" as separate, or even
"I" and "J" as separate.

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