At 16:47 -0500 2003-02-05, Jim Allan wrote:
There are often conflicting orthographic usages within a language. Language tagging alone does not indicate whether German text is to be rendered in Roman or Fraktur, whether Gaelic text is to be rendered in Roman or Uncial, and if Uncial, a modern Uncial or more traditional Uncial, whether English text is in Roman or Morse Code or Braille.We have script codes (very nearly a published standard) for that.
By the way, "modern uncial" and "more traditional uncial" isn't really sufficient I think for describing Gaelic letterforms. See http://www.evertype.com/celtscript/fonthist.html for a sketch of a more robust taxonomy.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
