> So you think that the letters in the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets which are printed identically to the Latin A should not exist?

Yes. Unicode should not be about semantic meaning, it should be about the visual. Like text in a book.

> And, for example, Greek words containing this letter should be encoded with a mix of Latin and Greek characters?

Yup. Consider a printed book. How can you tell if a letter is a Greek letter or a Latin letter?

Those Unicode homonyms are a solution looking for a problem.

bawolff 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Yes. Unicode should not be about semantic meaning, it should be about the visual. Like text in a book.

Do you think 1, l and I should be encoded as the same character, or does this logic only extend to characters pesky foreigners use.

	▲	WalterBright 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They are visually distinct to the reader.

Yokohiii 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unicode is about semantics not appearance. If you don't need semantics then use something different.

	▲	WalterBright 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Unicode is about semantics not appearance. And that's where it went off the rails into lala land. 'a' can have all kinds of distinct meanings. How are you going to make that work? It's hopeless.

Muromec 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Yup. Consider a printed book. How can you tell if a letter is a Greek letter or a Latin letter?

I can absolutely tell Cyrillic k from the lating к and latin u from the Cyrillic и.

>should not be about semantic meaning,

It's always better to be able to preserve more information in a text and not less.