Unicode characters unification

Hans Åberg via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Mon May 28 14:14:58 CDT 2018


> On 28 May 2018, at 21:01, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 28 May 2018 20:19:09 +0200
> Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
> 
>> Indistinguishable math styles Latin and Greek uppercase letters have
>> been added, even though that was not so in for example TeX, and thus
>> no encoding legacy to consider.
> 
> They sort differently - one can have vaguely alphabetical indexes of
> mathematical symbols.  They also have quite different compatibility
> decompositions.
> 
> Does sorting offer an argument for encoding these symbols differently.
> I'm not sure it's a strong arguments - how likely is one to have a list
> where the difference matters?

The main point is that they are not likely to be distinguishable when used side-by-side in the same formula. They could be of significance if using Greek names instead of letters, of length greater than one, then. But it is not wrong to add them, because it is easier than having to think through potential uses.





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