Unfortunately, it isn't the only case in which symbol collections should
be rendered differently depending on the language with which they are
used. As I understand it, we have at least one more in the case of
Devanagari.
That's all. Isn't it?
Well, there's Greek/Coptic. I don't have the 10646 draft here, but
the Unicode standard says:
The Coptic script is regarded as a font/style variant of the
Greek alphabet. The letters unique to Coptic have been added,
including their lower-case forms. A complete Coptic set would
be obtained by rendering the whole Greek alphabet in that same
style.
This implies that you have to decide between having a "Greek set" and
a "Coptic set".
The standard also seems to imply that Thai characters may be rendered
differently when writing Pali and Sanskrit than when writing Thai. (I
may be misreading it, and it is only claiming that Thai has
differences from other Indic scripts which are also used to write
these languages.)
I'd be unsurprised if some of the minority languages which use
extended Cyrillic alphabets didn't use systematic glyph variations
which were deemed "font" variations in the Cyrillic unification.
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