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I suspect the Greek alphabet was given special treatment because of just how prominent Greek symbols are in math and science. I posit that engineers and comput
by BuyMyBitcoins 1y ago
I suspect the Greek alphabet was given special treatment because of just how prominent Greek symbols are in math and science.
I posit that engineers and computer scientists gave extra time and attention towards accommodating Greek because they were so familiar with seeing and using those glyphs during their education. They knew that those symbols would be encountered in English, even before full internationalization efforts would take place. Whereas Turkish was merely an afterthought.
Edit: This post of mine is unfounded/inaccurate, thank you to dhosek for providing a proper explanation, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905574
- donatj 1y agoOh, I don't disagree. Some languages clearly got better treatment by the Unicode committee than others.
- tgv 1y agoTurkish was explicitly based on the Latin script by Atatürk. If Erdogan gets his way, it'll be reverted.
- groos 1y agoWhat a strange statement. Turkish (the Language) existed before the Ataturk's forced conversion into Romanized script and previously used the extended Arabic script. There are other languages which are written in multiple scripts, even outside of computing. In today's world, it's just as possible to type in Arabic as in Romanized Turkish, so whoever wants to do whatever, the capability exists.
- tgv 1y agoI should have written "The Turkish script." I thought that was clear from the context.
- dhosek 1y agoNope, it’s because of how the legacy encodings were handled. See my sibling comment to yours.
- BuyMyBitcoins 1y agoThank you for providing the historical context. I have edited my post and forwarded people to your explanation.