On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:57:38 -0800 David Starner <prosfil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > People, do you realize that proper glyphs are needed everywhere and > > every time, CONSTANTLY, even when American ordinary user chats with > > German ordinary user about Serbian language
> And if we picked your option and they did use Cyrillic? I'm betting > American ordinary user and German ordinary user would load up their > Russian keyboards and type away using Russian letters for Serbian. American *ordinary* user and German *ordinary* user would not be typing Serbian. One issue here that I don't know the solution for is how the right glyphs should be chosen for displaying plain text communication. I don't know any general mechanism for, say, specifying that by default Cyrillic text should use Serbian glyphs, CJK characters should use Japanese glyphs and that Cuneiform should use Neo-Assyrian glyphs. > There won't be new Serbian characters invalidating > every text stored in systems in Serbian today. I don't like the idea, but one possibility would be to define Serbian glyph styles by adding variation selectors. Variation selectors are already 'defined' for the decimal digits U+0030 to U+0039. It would, however, mess up string comparison operations that weren't smart enough to ignore variation selectors. Richard. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
