Re: Standaridized variation sequences for the Desert alphabet?

2017-03-23 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:54 AM Michael Everson wrote: > Again: The source of 1855 EW and OI uses *different* letters than the 1859 > EW and OI do. This wasn’t accidental. It’s not hard to puzzle out or to > see. This isn’t random or even systematic natural development of > handwriting styles. It

Re: Standaridized variation sequences for the Desert alphabet?

2017-03-23 Thread Michael Everson
On 23 Mar 2017, at 06:28, David Starner wrote: > > Does "Яussia" require a new Latin letter because the way R was written has > > a different origin than the normal R? > > But it doesn’t. It’s the Latin letter R turned backwards by a designer for a > logo. We wouldn’t encode that, because it’s

Re: Standaridized variation sequences for the Deseret alphabet?

2017-03-23 Thread Michael Everson
> On 23 Mar 2017, at 05:54, Martin J. Dürst wrote: > > Hello Michael, others, > > [Fixed script name in subject.] > > On 2017/03/23 09:03, Michael Everson wrote: >> On 22 Mar 2017, at 21:39, David Starner wrote: > >>> There's the same characters here, written in different ways. >> >> No, it

Re: Standaridized variation sequences for the Deseret alphabet?

2017-03-23 Thread Philippe Verdy
2017-03-23 6:54 GMT+01:00 Martin J. Dürst : > Hello Michael, others, > > On 2017/03/23 09:03, Michael Everson wrote: > >> On 22 Mar 2017, at 21:39, David Starner wrote: >> > > There's the same characters here, written in different ways. >>> >> >> No, it’s not. Its the same diphthong (a sound) wri

Re: Standaridized variation sequences for the Deseret alphabet?

2017-03-23 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:23:27 +0100 Otto Stolz wrote: > Same issue as with German sharp S: The blackletter »ß« derives from an > ſ-z ligature (thence its German name »Eszet«), whilst the Roman type > »ß« derives from an ſ-s ligature. Still, we encode both variants as > identical letters. I’ve got

Re: Standaridized variation sequences for the Deseret alphabet?

2017-03-23 Thread Otto Stolz
Hello Michael, others, On 2017/03/23 09:03, Michael Everson wrote: Its the same diphthong (a sound) written with different letters. Am 23.03.2017 um 06:54 schrieb Martin J. Dürst: I think this may well be the *historically* correct analysis. And that may have some influence on how to encode t

Re: Standaridized variation sequences for the Deseret alphabet?

2017-03-23 Thread James Kass
Martin J. Dürst wrote, > What is right for Deseret has to be decided by > and for Deseret users, rather than by script > historians. The Universal Character Set is used by everyone, including script historians. While modern day deployment of the script is determined by its users, the proper enco