On Mon, 28 May 2018 17:54:47 +0200 Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> > On 28 May 2018, at 17:00, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > > <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 28 May 2018 15:30:55 +0200 > > Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > >> 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. > > That would be the same if the Greek and Latin uppercase letters would > have been unified: One would need to know the context. I've seen a commutation diagram with both U+004D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M and U+039C GREEK CAPITAL LETTER MU on it. I only knew the difference because I listened to what the lecturer said. > > For the > > same reason, there are two utter confusables in THE Latin SCRIPT for > > 00D0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH. > The stuff is likely added for computer legacy, if there were separate > encodings for those. Unlikely. U+00F0 LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH and U+0256 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH TAIL contrast in the IPA. The difference between U+0111 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE and U+00F0 LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH may have been debated. Richard.
