On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:27:08 +0400 Alexey Ostrovsky via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> Before answering, we must mention the caseless nature of the Georgian > script. It "capital" letters do not exists as letters, they are letter > variants used exactly the same way as the Latin title case. Therefore, > Georgian "uppercase" = Georgian title case = Georgian "capital > letters" in Unicode 11, it is far from Latin uppercase by its > behavior and its features. Here are some examples for Georgian (I use > English, but semantics and casing mean to reflect Georgian) to > understand where we are: -- "mr. john smith" is unconditionally OK; > -- "MR JOHN SMITH" or "mr JOHN SMITH" can be OK or wrong depending on > situation, usually it is OK; > -- "Mr John Smith" is unconditionally wrong (except some marginal > cases, similar to English "mR jOHN sMITH"). > Therefore, easiest answer is (b): leave it "minuscule", as it is an > excellent and fully readable default solution. An answer to (a) is > not that easy, as it depends on designer's mood etc. I would say the > designer has to have an option to control it (say, through > "important" CSS option), and the default behavior must to be to > ignore uppercase transformations for Georgian. (If one accepts it by > default, there are cases like [<span class="x">m</span>r <span > class="x">j</span>ohn <span class="x">s</span>mith]). >From what you say, the new letter characters don't sound like title case letters. Title case is what one uses when words normally start with a capital and continue in small letters, but some letters act like ligatures of two letters and the appropriate form for an initial letter is like a ligature of a capital letter and a small letter. Richard.
