Jonathan Robie wrote: ↑September 24th, 2017, 5:59 pm
We are using tonos, which is what digital classicist recommends in your OP - do you know where the Unicode standard says oxia is deprecated? I spent about 15 minutes looking, but didn't find it. It's probably there.
I spent some more time on this and cannot find any evidence that those oxia characters are “deprecated”. (Of course, I discover this after I converted all of my data to use the tonos accent
) There is a deprecated field in the latest Unicode 10.0 specification (
http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/) and those characters are clearly NOT marked as deprecated. Here is where you can download files with the standard:
http://www.unicode.org/Public/10.0.0/. Yes, the oxia characters do “normalize” to the equivalent tonos characters, but that does not mean they are officially “deprecated”. Here is another discussion that includes some other Greek characters that were so-called “deprecated”, and those characters are not officially marked as deprecated either:
http://unicode.org/review/pr-122.html. Apparently, this word “deprecated” is being used for “discouraged” in these discussions, yet the characters are still not officially marked as deprecated. Here you can see all of the codes that are officially deprecated and none of them are Greek:
http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-un ... ated=Yes:]
So if indeed these characters are not “deprecated”, is the fact that these oxia characters are not the normalized form a sufficient reason not to use them? Normalization is for comparing characters, but that does not mean that the non-normalized form is necessarily wrong does it? Where might it become a problem down the road?