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They aren't! Good catch; I'd assumed from the example. Another slip-up: ideographic should modify unified CJK, not the Latin letters. Variation sequences for d
by mgdlbp 4y ago
They aren't! Good catch; I'd assumed from the example. Another slip-up: ideographic should modify unified CJK, not the Latin letters.
Variation sequences for double-storied 'a' and 'g' were proposed, as part of the only Unicode proposal with substantial Latin glyph variations,[1] to address the problem raised by the answer to the FAQ,
Q: Can all glyph variations be represented with variation sequences?
…that there are separate codepoints for only the single-storied glyphs, meaning only fonts that assign the double-storied glyphs to the original ASCII codepoints can contrast the variations. The proposal went through two rounds of UTC,
- first as agendum C.4 of UTC 126 (http://unicode.org/L2/L2011/11015.htm http://unicode.org/L2/L2011/11015.htm),
- then rescheduled (https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetL2Ref.pl?126-A79 https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetL2Ref.pl?126-A79)...
- as agendum C.21 of UTC 127 (https://unicode.org/L2/L2011/11115.htm https://unicode.org/L2/L2011/11115.htm),
- but ultimately wasn't acted upon (C.21.1 of https://unicode.org/L2/L2011/11116-pre.htm https://unicode.org/L2/L2011/11116-pre.htm)
It did leave an extensive debate as precedent for what glyph variations are to be used for,[2] namely not localization as the proposal had largely intended. A shorter discussion in retrospective occurred when it was brought up again in 2018.[3]
[1] L2/10-280 / L2/11-059 (https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11059-latin-cyr-var.pdf https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11059-latin-cyr-var.pdf)
[2] https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m08/thread.html#20 https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m08/thread.ht...
[3] https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2018-m07/thread.html#34 https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2018-m07/threa...
- brewmarche 4y agoWow, many thanks for digging all of this out. It’s pretty cool that the Unicode proceedings are public.