IPA's double life (RE: New scripts)
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Tue Nov 27 16:51:20 CET 2007
Mark Davis scripsit:
> > 2) Is there any precedent for specific characters or ranges in
> > Unicode to be covered by more than one ISO 15924 code? I believe I
> > recall there are a few cases, but that they are exceptions.
>
> In Unicode, the association between script and character forms a complete
> partition. Each character has exactly one script. Any characters that are
> used in multiple scripts have the script value = common or inherited
That said, there are orthographies that use letters from more than one
Unicode script (Cyrillic-based Kurdish uses some Latin letters), and of
course the fact that a *document* is in the Latin script does not exclude
the possibility that it contains characters from other scripts, as any
book on Greek philosophy in English or German (at least) will reveal.
--
My confusion is rapidly waxing John Cowan
For XML Schema's too taxing: cowan at ccil.org
I'd use DTDs http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
If they had local trees --
I think I best switch to RELAX NG.
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