script tags update (Re: [mpeg-OTspec] Digest Number 549)

[John Hudson]

On 02/04/16 10:50, 'Leonardo Chiariglione' leonardo at chiariglione.org 
[mpeg-OTspec] wrote:

> kana Hiragana
> kana Katakana
>
> I feel like saying
>
> letter Greek letter
>
> letter Latin latter
>
> In other words, why don;t you simply say
>
> Hiragana
>
> Katakana
>

It's a technical spec mapping tag names used in the OTL tables to 
natural language script names: <kana> is the tag, and it is used for 
both Katakana and Hiragana.

There's no requirement for any technical specification to conform to a 
particular way of thinking about or talking about a given writing 
system, only for the spec to be unambiguous and to work for the intended 
purpose.


JH


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John Hudson
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