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Wait what? He writes "For example, the first ten letters of the Hungarian alphabet are¹", but the note is "I got this information from the Unicode Standard, Ver
by rob74 2y ago
Wait what? He writes "For example, the first ten letters of the Hungarian alphabet are¹", but the note is "I got this information from the Unicode Standard, Version 15.0, Chapter 7: “Europe I”, Section 7.1: “Latin”, subsection “Latin Extended-B: U+0180-U+024F”, sub-subsection “Croatian Digraphs Matching Serbian Cyrillic Letters.”
Actually it kinda makes sense to have two Latin letters form a digraph if they are used to represent a single Cyrillic letter, while it makes less sense for Hungarian, which (AFAIK) has always been written with Latin letters? I mean, of course you could do it, but then I want an extra Unicode code point for the German "sch" too!
If you look at the whole Hungarian alphabet (https://learnhungarianfromhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/The-Hungarian-Alphabet-683x1024.png https://learnhungarianfromhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/0...), you get a total of 8 digraphs and 1 trigraph (plus 9 letters with diacritics), but "Lj" and "Nj" are not among them...
- anamexis 2y agoFrom the article: > These digraphs owe their existence in Unicode not to Hungarian but to Serbo-Croatian. Serbo-Croatian is written in both Latin script (Croatian) and Cyrillic script (Serbian), and these digraphs permit one-to-one transliteration between them.¹
- rob74 2y agoYeah, but then why bring up Hungarian (which has very little in common with Serbo-Croatian, although spoken in a neighboring country) in the first place?
- anamexis 2y agoBecause Hungarian is an example of having 3 cases, but only some of the Hungarian digraphs have these 3 cases encoded in Unicode.
- rob74 2y agoYes, buuuut Serbo-Croatian obviously has those 3 cases too, so he could have made the post much clearer by leaving out Hungarian and only focusing on Serbo-Croatian (or mentioning Hungarian only as an aside). I mean, if three of these four digraphs don't even exist in Hungarian, and "dz" is the only encoded Hungarian digraph, it's pretty obvious that the fact that it was encoded is only a coincidence?
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