L2/00-379
From:
Mark Davis/Cupertino/IBM [mark.davis@us.ibm.com]
Sent:
Friday, October 27, 2000 9:40 PM
Subject: Agenda Item: Script Names TR
I had
previously proposed that the Script Names DTR be approved as a TR.
Ken had
a number of objections to that, based on the text and the data
file. I
have modified the text to meet his objections. The new version is
at:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr24/tr24-1.2-d3.html
The
data file is not yet changed. I would like to make the data changes all
at
once, based on the results of the meeting. The known changes to be made
are:
-
Change Aboriginal to UCAS
- Mark
the Coptic characters as such.
- Fix
the misspelling of "Telugu" as "Telegu"
- Add
Kanbun characters 3190..319F*
- Add
Kangxi radicals and CJK radicals to Han*
- Add
Yi radicals to Yi*
- Add
Roman Numerals to Latin*
(The *
items are where the items don't have a general category of Letter.)
Open
Issue: I believe that the only open issue remaining from Ken's list
was
whether or not to make Combining marks in the script blocks be part of
the
script or not. The text now makes the script of the combining mark be
the
script of its base character. Since this *has* to be done for the
general
combining marks, I personally don't see the value of doing it for
others.
It also allows combining marks to be used across scripts without
get odd
behavior, such as Arabic and Syriac or Greek and Coptic. We can
leave
this up to discussion in the UTC.
Mark
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Mark
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