"D. Starner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Latin alphabet has 23 letters, IIRC. The Latin alphabet as > encoded in Unicode has hundreds of letters, including many caseless > letters and diacritics of all sizes and shapes and Fraktur ligatures, > but it's still unified with the Alphabet that Virgil used.
IMO the encoding of Latin characters is not a good example to apply to anything else. The Latin alphabet has been adopted - and adapted - to write to so many different and diverse languages, has so many different styles and is in such widespread modern use that it would be hopelessly complex to disentangle / dis-unify into seperate scripts if there were a case for doing so. OTOH there were so many pre-existing standards using sets of Latin characters all kinds of things have been encoded as seperate characters in the Latin blocks which simply wouldn't be there had Latin encoding started with a clean slate. - Chris
