Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

Michael Everson wrote:
> At 23:14 +0100 2007-10-24, Andrew West wrote:
> 
>> Indeed. Even English requires combining marks if you want to support
>> Old English other than normalised Early West Saxon, e.g. ¦¯©‚el or
>> o?e©‚el (oe ligature with combining macron or oe with combining double
>> macron). And I guess that there are a few of us on this list who would
>> say that fully supporting OE is absolutely required for English as a
>> whole.
> 
> Of course it is. I learnt OE in secondary school. Surely that is 
> "ordinary" enough.

What does that prove? I learned Classical Greek in secondary school. 
Does that mean that fully supporting polytonic Greek is absolutely 
required for English as a whole?