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In article <27738@life.ai.mit.edu> glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams) writes:
>
>10646 encodes the elements of scripts, independent of their use by particular
>languages.  Latin and Cyrillic, though both derived from the Greek alphabet
>along with influences from Etruscan and Aramaic, are clearly distinct
>scripts.  On the other hand, the Han script, as used in China, Japan, Korea,
>and Vietnam, is clearly one script, though some innovations were introduced
>in its different writing systems.
>
>Since Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin are separate scripts, their elements are
>encoded separately, even when they happen to have some overlap of form.
>
>An even more important reason for their distinction in 10646 is because they
>are distinct in ISO8859-5.  The prime directive, as it were, for 10646 was
>to facilitate a 1-1 round-trip mapping between 10646 and existing character
>sets.  This precludes any unification of the few similar Cyrillic, Greek,
>and Latin characters.
>

  An even more important reason is that the three cannot be unified in
  any reasonable way.  The only character with the same upper and
  lower case forms in these three languages is O/o.  Thanks to Joe
  Becker to pointing this out.

/fab


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