<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Latin also has letter variants like <span class="aCOpRe"><span>single-storey and double-storey g, single-decker and double-decker a, overlapped (Wikipedia-style) and non-overlapped W, </span></span>bisected Q, joined Q, unjoined Q, single stroke Q, inside Q<span class="aCOpRe"><span>, curly Q and many more. This is known as allography. Those characters have no distinct codepoints (</span></span>U+0251 and U+0261 are special characters for used in the IPA). You can set different glyph variants with OpenType.</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2020 um 19:05 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Doug Ewell via Unicode" <unicode@unicode.org><br/>
<b>An:</b> unicode@unicode.org<br/>
<b>Cc:</b> abrahamgross@disroot.org<br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> RE: Italics get used to express important semantic meaning, so unicode should support them</div>
<div name="quoted-content">abrahamgross wrote:<br/>
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>> Children learn to write with upper case and lower case letters in<br/>
>> school, and most people continue to use both as adults. (There are<br/>
>> exceptions of course, some people write only with lower case, and<br/>
>> some only with upper case.)<br/>
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> Unicode refused to encode arabic letter variants (not counting<br/>
> compatibility chars), which are taught in school and adults use it,<br/>
> and its how arabic is written, so ur argument here doesn't hold water.<br/>
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I'm not sure what to make of that sentence. That's like saying "Unicode refused to encode the capital letter A (not counting U+0041)."<br/>
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The compatibility characters are exactly how one is supposed to represent Arabic letter forms outside of their normal context, as described here.<br/>
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Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org<br/>
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