Re: [Lucid] Communication.

Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com> Thu, 19 March 2015 23:49 UTC

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From: Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [Lucid] Communication.
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> Humans aren't computers and they make decisions and get confused based on appearance. I don't see the two perspectives as mutually exclusive.

They're orthogonal though.  Clearly some characters are confusable yet necessary (Cyrillic А and Latin A).  The example in the appendix point out other cases where multiple code points are confusable.  The only real difference between the examples in PRECIS/lucid's Appendix A is questioning of the validity of the same-script similarities in Appendix A, bases primarily in the appearance.

I find l̦ and ļ fairly difficult to distinguish, yet the distinction between ț and ţ (easier to tell, but the same combining marks) is important to some.   Should l̦ and ļ be forbidden or unified because I can't see a distinction and I have no clue how people would use them?  l̦ and ļ aren't in Appendix A (are they supposed to be?)  

For that matter, I have a hard time seeing a difference between i and i̇, however IDNA makes particular use of the odd combination in the casing/normalization rules.  Those aren't in Appendix A.

Should i and i̇ be in Appendix A?  What about l̦ and ļ?  If not, can someone explain why they're special?

-Shawn