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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

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In message <tk2pk6d1m27fop2cr94sbe4hn9c0io44je@4ax.com>, Roedy Green wrote:

> I get a strange pleasure out of poking around the odd corners of the
> Unicode glyphs ...

You’re not the only one. :)

> ... just admiring the art of various cultures in designing their
> alphabets, often baffled which they would design so many letters
> almost identical.

There seem to be an awful lot of cases of adapting a letter from one 
alphabet for a completely different purpose in another. Look at the 
correspondences between Cyrillic and Roman, just for example: V → B, S → C, 
that kind of thing.

> The glyphs that fascinate me most are Arabic which look to have rules of
> typography that boggle the western mind.

And Arabic script was adopted by a whole lot of different languages which 
had sounds that Arabic did not. So they had to make up their own letters, 
most commonly by adding different numbers of dots to the existing shapes.

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  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-02-06 15:42 +0000
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-02-06 18:34 +0000
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 11:02 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 18:17 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-09 20:12 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-10 14:00 +1300
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-05 12:54 +1300
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-02-05 13:09 +0000
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-02-04 15:29 -0800

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