As briefly discussed in Unicode Technical Note #26, "In terms of implementation issues, any attempt at a unification of Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic would wreak havoc [and] make casing operations an unholy mess, in effect making all casing operations context sensitive […]". In other words, while the shapes of letters like A, B, E, H, K, M, O, P, T, X, Y and so on are shared between the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets (and small differences in their canonical forms may be considered to be of a merely typographical nature), it would still be problematic for a multilingual character set or a font to provide only a single codepoint for, say, uppercase letter B, as this would make it quite difficult for a wordprocessor to change that single uppercase letter to one of the three different choices for the lower-case letter, b (Latin), β (Greek), or в (Cyrillic). Without letter case, a "unified European alphabet" – such as ABБCГDΔΕZЄЗFΦGHIИJ…Z, with an appropriate subset for each language – is feasible; but considering letter case, it becomes very clear that these alphabets are rather distinct sets of symbols.
As briefly discussed in Unicode Technical Note # 26 , " In terms of implementation issues , any attempt at a unification of Latin , Greek , and Cyrillic would wreak havoc [ and ] make casing operations an unholy mess , in effect making all casing operations context sensitive [ … ] " . In other words , while the shapes of letters like A , B , E , H , K , M , O , P , T , X , Y and so on are shared between the Latin , Greek , and Cyrillic alphabets ( and small differences in their canonical forms may be considered to be of a merely typographical nature ) , it would still be problematic for a multilingual character set or a font to provide only a single codepoint for , say , uppercase letter B , as this would make it quite difficult for a wordprocessor to change that single uppercase letter to one of the three different choices for the lower - case letter , b ( Latin ) , β ( Greek ) , or в ( Cyrillic ) . Without letter case , a " unified European alphabet " – such as ABБCГDΔΕZЄЗFΦGHIИJ … Z , with an appropriate subset for each language – is feasible ; but considering letter case , it becomes very clear that these alphabets are rather distinct sets of symbols .
What among many common letters is shared between Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic?
What among many common letters is shared between Latin , Greek , and Cyrillic ?
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