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25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts

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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Robert Alessi <alessi <at> robertalessi.net>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, 36717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations
 should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:19:04 +0100

Robert Alessi <alessi <at> robertalessi.net> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 04:54:45PM +0200, Robert Pluim wrote:
>> >>>>> On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 11:03:10 +0200, Robert Alessi <alessi <at> robertalessi.net> said:
>> 
>>     Robert> As of 2016, the latest versions of Unicode (as of 2016) have now
>>     Robert> formally deprecated and removed the vowel+oxia combinations from the
>>     Robert> Greek extended range, leaving only the vowel+tonos from the basic Greek
>>     Robert> and Coptic range.
>> 
>>     Robert> As a result of this deprecation, the sixteen characters found in
>>     Robert> greek.el (Quail package for inputting Greek) that use extended
>>     Robert> codepoints should be replaced with those that use basic codepoints.  All
>>     Robert> affected characters can be found here:
>>     --> 
>>     Robert> https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Greek_Unicode_duplicated_vowels#Affected_characters
>> 
>> I took a look at greek.el, that shouldn't be difficult. What about
>> GREEK OXIA vs GREEK TONOS as standalone characters? Should we replace
>> the former with the latter?
>
> Very well spotted.  Actually, the latter is the right one—that is:
> Greek Tonos, U+0384—while the former, Greek Oxia (U+1FFD) belongs to
> the group that was deprecated.  So it is the other way round: keep the
> former, and make the latter go.

AFAICT the link you provided does not say anything about oxia the
standalone character.

I'm still interested in seeing some documentation on this deprecation
that is not from digitalclassicist.org.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

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