- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:41:09 -0400
- To: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Andrew Cunningham <lang.support@gmail.com>, Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, LTRU Working Group <ltru@ietf.org>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>, Hċkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>, Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>, Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>, "Adam Twardoch (List)" <list.adam@twardoch.com>
Peter Constable scripsit: > Indeed, the OT language system tags are about typographic > conventions. Now, many languages have a single conventional writing > system and a single set of conventions for typography for that > writing system, though conventions may different for other languages > with writing systems based on the same script. Is the repertoire of characters considered part of the typographic convention of a language? Because if so, hardly two languages will share the same conventions. -- There are three kinds of people in the world: John Cowan those who can count, cowan@ccil.org and those who can't.
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