[Python-Dev] [OT] glyphs [was Re: email package status in 3.X] (original) (raw)
Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Jun 22 12:52:39 CEST 2010
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:46:27 am Terry Reedy wrote:
3. Unicode disclaims direct representation of glyphic variants (though again, exceptions were made for asian acceptance). For example, in English, mechanically printed 'a' and 'g' are different from manually printed 'a' and 'g'. Representing both by the same codepoint, in itself, loses information. One who wishes to preserve the distinction must instead use a font tag or perhaps a tag. Similarly, older English had a significantly different glyph for 's', which looks more like a modern 'f'.
An unfortunate example, as the old English long-s gets its own Unicode codepoint.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
-- Steven D'Aprano
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