Juergen Buchmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anybody know if there is a visual or functional difference > between U+1541 and U+157D? To me they look exactly the same :-P U+1541 CANADIAN SYLLABICS SAYISI YI and U+157D CANADIAN SYLLABICS HK share the same glyph, a medium-sized X raised slightly from center. There are no handy cross-references from one letter to the other, like the ones we are accustomed to seeing in the Latin blocks, but based on the two character names and the fact that UCAS names seem fairly phonetic, I'd guess that the two have different pronunciations and may come from different writing traditions. In the Runic block, there are two pairs of characters that share the same glyph: U+16BC RUNIC LETTER LONG-BRANCH-HAGALL H U+16E1 RUNIC LETTER IOR and U+16BD RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-HAGALL H U+16C2 RUNIC LETTER E This bothered me until I read the note on page 175 of The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0: "When runes from different writing systems have the same graphic form but a different origin and denote different sounds, they have been coded as separate characters." I assume this is what happened with the similar-looking Canadian Syllabics characters. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
