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bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 15:55:51 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:54:07 +0200
> From: Robert Alessi <alessi@robertalessi.net>
> Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, 36717@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > As of 2016, the latest versions of Unicode (as of 2016) have now
> > formally deprecated and removed the vowel+oxia combinations from the
> > Greek extended range, leaving only the vowel+tonos from the basic Greek
> > and Coptic range.
> >
> > is not really accurate?
>
> I would say so, to say the least, but I am still investigating. What
> is sure is that tonos originally does not encode the same as oxia.
> The former encodes a stress, while the latter encodes a pitch. This
> is undisputable. That said, the fact that the Greek government did
> decree that tonos shall be the same as oxia (to be taken cautiously, I
> am not a specialist of modern Greek) surely introduced a lot of
> confusion.
>
> For example, if one makes no distinction between the two, then it
> becomes harder to analyse large corpuses with a computer.
What do you mean by "makes no distinction"? Those are different
codepoints, regardless of how they look on display. So we definitely
_can_ distinguish between them.
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, (continued)
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Robert Alessi, 2019/07/19
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/19
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/19
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Robert Alessi, 2019/07/19
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/19
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Robert Pluim, 2019/07/19
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Robert Alessi, 2019/07/19
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/19
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/19
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Robert Alessi, 2019/07/19
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Robert Alessi, 2019/07/19
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2019/07/18
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Robert Alessi, 2019/07/18
- bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2019/07/18
bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2019/07/18
bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Robert Alessi, 2019/07/18
bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Robert Pluim, 2019/07/19
bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2019/07/18