second attempt

[Ken Whistler via Unicode]

On 10/31/2018 11:27 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
> but we don't have an agreement that reproducing all variations in 
> manuscripts is in scope.

In fact, I would say that in the UTC, at least, we have an agreement 
that that clearly is out of scope!

Trying to represent all aspects of text in manuscripts, including 
handwriting conventions, as plain text is hopeless. There is no 
principled line to draw there before you get into arbitrary calligraphic 
conventions.

And while this list is happily deep-ending on handwritten lines under 
superscript Latin letters in Polish abbreviations, keep in mind that 
*Han* characters alone constitute over 64% of the encoded characters in 
Unicode -- and the handwriting, style, and calligraphic conventions for 
Han make Latin look simple. Here:

Japanese Postcard NY Greeting

That is a New Year's greeting snipped from a 1906 Japanese postcard. Oh, 
snap! What are we going to do to represent the *leaves* (or are they 
feathers?) being used for handwritten strokes in that text???

--Ken



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