At 08:58 -0700 2004-05-01, Peter Kirk wrote:
On 29/04/2004 17:36, Michael Everson wrote:
At 10:34 -0700 2004-04-29, Peter Kirk wrote:
But what answer do you have to my point, made in more detail
elsewhere, that it will cause total confusion, and defeat the
purposes of Unicode, if some people use the new characters and
others don't?
Frankly I'd say it's an unreasonable suggestion on your part. NO
ONE is forced to use Sinhala, Brahmi, Myanmar, or Devanagari script
to represent Buddhist texts in Pali. Scholars, and the Pali Text
Society, happily ignore these scripts and use Latin. Similarly, NO
ONE will be forced to use Phoenician script to represent early
Phoenician language if they find it hard to read and prefer to
represent it in Hebrew script, or in Latin.
But do scholars and the Pali Text Society encode the texts in Latin
and then use masquerading fonts or whatever to render the texts in
whichever script they prefer to?
Certainly not.
Very likely they do at the moment.
Yet another unsubstantiated supposition on your part.
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