Re: Alphabet comparison table for Latin/Greek/Cyrillic

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Philip Newton wrote:
> On 5/12/07, Jean-François Colson <fa597525@...> wrote:
>> The Greek delta and the Cyrillic be are on the same line.
>
> I noticed this, too.
>
> However, certainly in handwriting, Cyrillic lower-case beh looks like
> Greek lower-case delta,
Or rather like ϐ (U+03D0 GREEK BETA SYMBOL).

Have you ever seen Georgian letters such as ვ (vin), კ (kan), პ (par) and ჳ
(we) all in the same script?
Or Cherokee syllables such as Ꭱ (e) and Ꮢ (sv)? Or Ꮃ (la) and Ꮤ (ta)?

Personnally I often have to look close to distinguish rn (RN) from m (M) in
lowercase in a unknown proper name.

So I think that a difference as big as the one between δ and б should be
enough.

BTW the IPA distinguishes a and ɑ (script a) while they look alike in
italics.

> and I have trouble distinguishing them
> sometimes when writing GSF by hand.
>
> So I think it's a good idea to put them on a common "confusable" line.
They're more or less confusable following the selected font.

JF

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