At 08:22 -0400 2004-07-11, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Then you should be chastising Unicode, not the deviser of the
>terminology, since the terminology seems to have been taken over
>without understanding and inaccurately.

If you have an issue with the definitions in the Unicode Standard,
please be specific about each of them.

>How is this different from Ethiopic (except in how Unicode foolishly
>chose to present their chart)?

This is ridiculous and offensive. There is nothing "foolish" in the
way in which Ethiopic or Tamil are presented in the Unicode code
charts.
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