On Mon, 28 May 2018 15:30:55 +0200 Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> > On 28 May 2018, at 15:10, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > > <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 28 May 2018 10:08:30 +0200 > > Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > > >> It is not about precision, but concepts. Like B, Β, and В, which > >> could have been unified, but are not. > > > > Unifying these would make a real mess of lower casing! > > German has a special sign ß for "ss", without upper capital version. That doesn't prevent upper-casing - you just have to know your audience. The three letters like 'B' have very different lower case forms, and very few would agree that they were the same letter. For the same reason, there are two utter confusables in THE Latin SCRIPT for 00D0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH. More notably though, one just has to run the risk of getting a culturally incorrect upper case when rendering U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG; whether the three alternatives are the same letter is debatable. Richard.
