On Thu, 01 Nov 2018 18:23:05 +0100 "Janusz S. Bień via Unicode" <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01 2018 at 8:43 -0700, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: > > I don't think it's a joke to recognize that there is a continuum > > here and that there is no line that can be drawn which is based on > > straightforward principles. This is a pattern that keeps surfacing > > the deeper you look at character coding questions. > > Looks like you completely missed my point. Nobody ever claimed that > reproducing all variations in manuscripts is in scope of Unicode, so > whom do you want to convince that it is not? I think the counter-claim is that one will never be able to encode all the meaning-conveying distinctions of text in Unicode. Richard.