At 14:57 -0500 2004-03-12, cowan@... wrote:

>Jelks Cabaniss scripsit:
>
>> The answer (for the curious) is at the bottom of the updated URL above,
>> where I also question Unicode relegating Coptic to "just plain old Greek
>> plus seven extra letters".
>
>The next version of Unicode will disunify Coptic and Greek, adding alfa,
>vida, gamma, dalda, eie, sou (Coptic stigma, used only as a number), zata,
>hate, thethe, iauda, kapa, laula, mi, ni, ksi, o, pi, ro, sima, tau, ua,
>fi, khi, psi, oou, Akhmimic kei, and ro with stroke, in upper and lower case
>forms; also the symbols mi-ro, khi-ro, and Khristos; Coptic full
>stop; and Coptic
>1/2.

And some other things if the Nubians have their way.
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