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>In summation, it is clear to me that LGC should not be unified, but I
>would feel more comfortable if I could articulate what it means to be
>an autonomous script. Suggestions welcome, as always.

This is essentially the same message that I posted in a Japanese newsgroup
this morning, but anyway...

Latin, Greek and Cyrillic typefaces have traditionally been developed
separately, and ("TeX" notwithstanding) they are generally not combined
with each other to form words.  When a Greek or Russian word appears
in English text using an entirely different font from the Latin font,
it does not necessarily look out of place.

When a Chinese place name appears inside Japanese text using a Chinese
typeface (ignoring for the moment differences in official simplified
characters), it is legible but looks slightly out of place.  Whether
this means that Chinese and Japanese characters may be treated as a
single script, or that Japanese usage involves the "translation" of
Chinese place names from the Chinese script to the Japanese script,
depends on one's political bias.

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John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
melby@yk.fujitsu.co.jp