On 21 Sep 2012, at 12:04, David Starner wrote: >> Why? Does Finland think that it makes sense to encode a tiny subset of a >> complex writing system, even though the complexities of that writing system >> in terms of character encoding have not been fully explored, and the >> interaction of that tiny subset with the rest of the writing system is >> unknown? > > They're in use with known semantics and interactions.
Do you know what their interactions are with other characters in their native writing system? > They're no longer necessarily connected to that complex writing system, They are if they are expected to be used with it. > any more then we had to encode Arabic at the same time we encoded Arabic > numerals. Neither Arabic-Indic digits ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ nor European digits 0123456789 interact with the other characters they are used with in complex ways. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
