<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2813"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2814">Hi folks, <br></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2815"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2816"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_3114"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2816">At our meeting last Thursday, Dennis mentioned in passing that there were “only a few” in-script
variants for Latin.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2817"> </span>I think this is
seriously incorrect. </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2818"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2819"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2820"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2821">You may recall
that, at our face-to-face meeting in Brussels last winter, Sarmad expanded this
spreadsheet </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2822"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2823"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sj2moWEw4YFLFTcvsiRpjsQRyLZJ7SCnlF78OSYQg04/edit#gid=1268608001" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2824">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sj2moWEw4YFLFTcvsiRpjsQRyLZJ7SCnlF78OSYQg04/edit#gid=1268608001</a>
</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2825"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2826">to include a
tab for each letter of the Latin alphabet, and created tables (in each of our
three fonts) for the variations of each letter.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2827">
</span>(I am still in awe that he managed to do the whole thing in under an
hour!)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2828"> </span>I’ve made a few additions to the
tables: </span></div>
<ol id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2913"><li id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2928"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2830"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2831"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2832"></span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2833">I’ve
added rows and columns for the code points (e.g. from Esperanto) that have been
added to our repertoire since then. <br></span></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2915"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2835"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2836"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2837"></span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2838">I’ve
put a few codepoints in additional places.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2839">
</span>For example, <span style="color:black" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2840">ł</span> (0142 Latin Small Letter
L with Stroke) is still with the letter L, but it also got added to the tab for
the letter T.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2841"> </span>My thought being that, for
those who do not know Polish and so are unfamiliar with the codepoint, it would
automatically be read as a T. </span></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2912"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2843"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2844"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2845"></span></span></span>I’ve added a column giving the Unicode code for
each glyph.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2846"> That should give us a head start, when we got to create a table of variants. </span></li></ol>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2847"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2939">In addition, I’ve taken a stab at rating each pair.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2848"> </span>(I’m still slogging thru the letter O.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2849"> </span>But the rest are done.) I have found that it is extremely helpful to highlight the
individual entries: 1 is highlighted in <span style="background:aqua;mso-highlight:aqua" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2851">blue</span>, 2 in <span style="background:lime;mso-highlight:lime" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2852">green</span>, 3 in <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2853">yellow</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2854"> </span>That way, it is far easier to find things in
the sea of ratings.
</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2855"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2948">So far, I have over 25 Variants that I would rate as a 1, and
an additional 140+ that I would rate as a 2.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2856"> (And, as noted, I've still got the 23 Letter O codepoints to work thru.)
</span>Obviously we need a second pair of eyes to look over each case.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2857"> </span>But it’s a start. <br></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2858"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2949">Clearly this isn’t something that we are going to just whip
thru in a week or two. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2859"> </span>However,
if Mirjana is willing, it occurs to me that we can offer up what I’ve got in
the DRAFT that we are sending to the IP at the end of the month.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2860">
</span>It won't be our final opinion, of course, but it will at least give them something on which to base feedback – if they
disagree with where I’ve gone, they can tell us, so we can make corrections in
our face-to-face meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2861"> </span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2950"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534720892562_2951">Bill Jouris<br>Inside Products<br>bill.jouris@insidethestack.com<br>831-659-8360<br>925-855-9512 (direct)</div></div></body></html>