On 26 Mar 2017, at 14:32, David Starner <prosfil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> And I'd argue that a good theoretical model of the Latin script makes ä, ꞛ >>> and aͤ the same character, distinguished only by the font. >> >> Fortunately for the users of our standard, we don’t do this. > > You've yet to come up with users to whom these Deseret letters are relevant. You might imagine it takes time to identify problems and address them. >> I’m fairly sure that a person citing a medieval document using aͤ may very >> well also need to write this alongside Swedish or German using ä. > > I'm fairly sure that a person citing an early 20th century Germany document > may well feel the need to cite it in Fraktur. Fraktur is a whole-font substitition (modulo the ligatures). This is not the same thing as an editor choosing w or ƿ. Imagine if we had unified those two. After all, they both represent the same sound, right? (Shudder.) > In both cases, I believe that's going above and beyond the identity of the > characters involved, but in your case, people do contrast the aͤ with ä, and > the user case has been made. Show me the users who want to use these Deseret > letters contrastingly. Do try to be less dismissive. Firstly, *I* have published entire books in Deseret and so I myself have a legitimate interest. In the second, Iam in fact beginning discussions with relevant experts. Michael Everson
