[Latingp] Draft variants principles document - Dotless I

Michael Bauland Michael.Bauland at knipp.de
Thu Apr 19 12:09:08 UTC 2018


Hi Mats, hi all,

sorry to drop in so late. I was sick for a week and then there was loads
of work to catch up with.

On 06.04.2018 11:21, Mats Dufberg wrote:
> Dennis,
> 
>  
> 
> I believe that a visual test of running text is relevant for Internet
> identifiers. Internet identifiers are often found in running text. 

Without looking at the specific example, I agree with Dennis that
running text should not be relevant. The human mind is trained to look
at whole words when reading and not looking at every single character.
There are many tricks you can do with letters/words, while the reader is
still able to read the sentence without problems, and might not even
notice there is something "wrong."

However, I disagree with Dennis, when he said:

> this panel has agreed that visual similarity is outside the scope of our work.

As stated in the draft document:
"A Latin code point will be deemed a variant with a cross-script code
point when the two code points or sequence of code point are visually
identical or nearly identical when the difference can be attributed to
different font styles."

"nearly identical" to me is visual similarity.

But of course, we need to look at all the cases to decide whether
something is nearly identical or not. For the dotless I I would vote
they are not nearly identical (otherwise we could also have u and ü
being nearly identical, and we shouldn't go that way).

Still, the dotless I remains in discussion due to the fact of the
complexity of up-casing and down-casing, as Mats said.

Best regards,

Michael

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