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Re: Coptic/Cyrillic

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Saturday, February 19, 2000, 20:15
Daniel A. Wier scripsit:

> But Unicode 3.0 might be adding the > true Coptic character set, which is a unified case (as the second text > example).
Nope, no Coptic/Greek deunification in 3.0, maybe 4.0.
> That might be a plane variant of Greek, like Fraktur and Gaeilge > would be of Latin, so it might not have its own allocation area.
That's the way Coptic is treated now, as mostly a font difference. Michael Everson's document is meant to demonstrate that that's a bad idea.
> My goal is to merge the three Greek-based alphabets into one, inshallah...
Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic? Why not Latin, Georgian, Armenian too? -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin