Addison Phillips [wM] wrote: > Obviously I'm not an expert in these linguistic areas (and hence > rarely comment on them), but it seems to me that the lack of other > mechanisms makes Unicode an attractive target for criticism in this > area.
Certainly no Unicode-bashing was intended (I'm more of a Unicode evangelist). I guess I'm confused about the use of Unicode character properties. Are you saying that, even though Unicode defines U+0027 as punctuation, other, I could use it as a glottal stop and create a locale that would treat it as a letter (and still be "Unicode compliant", whatever that is?). And if that's the case, are the Unicode properties just guides? Could I develop an orthography where Yβяبձ⁋ would be a word, and there would be no consequences? -- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Mockingbird Font Works http://www.mockfont.com/
