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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by frivoal on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @03:35PM (#9220682)
Han unification as a hole is misguided? I'll grant you that some characters which were unified probably shouldn't have been, and maybe some that some that should have been weren't, but what's the argument for the whole thing to be misguided?

Should Norwegian A and English A be different Unicode code points just because Norwegian also has Ø, proving that it is a different writing system? You may want to debate whether i and ı should the same letter (they aren't), but most letters in the Turkish alphabet are the same as the letters in the English alphabet.

Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by estebank on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @08:21PM (#9222650)
We'll the Turkish i/ı/I/I is I think exactly the example I would have come up with of characters that looks the same as i/I, but should have it's own code point, just like cyrillic characters have their own code points despite looking like latin characters.
Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by frivoal on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @02:26AM (#9223925)
Absolutely. So i/ı/I/I do have their own codepoints. But the rest of the letters, which are the same, don't. Just like han unification. Letters which are the same are the same, and those which are not are not, even if they look pretty close.
Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by estebank on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @02:57PM (#9227875)
The thing is that the turkish "i" and "I" don't have their own codepoints, it is the same one as latin "i" and "I", when they should have been their own codepoints representing the same glyphs. That way going from I to ı and from i to İ wouldn't be a locale dependant problem.