On 03.06.2016 20:41, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/3/2016 3:14 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
That's not right either. Cyrillic letters can look slightly different
from their
latin lookalikes in some circumstances.
I'm sure there are extremely good reasons for not using the latin
lookalikes in
the Cyrillic alphabets, because most (all?) 8-bit Cyrillic encodings use
separate codes for the lookalikes. It's not restricted to Unicode.
How did people ever get by with printed books and documents?
They can disambiguate the letters based on context well enough.
