Kenneth Whistler scripsit:
> John Cowan wrote:
> >
> > In summary, this means that Unicode 3.0 should include:
> > [A] total of 38 scripts;
> >
>
> Not quite. In addition to the 24 scripts currently in Unicode 2.1:
Okay, I miscounted Unicode 2.1; I thought there were 25.
> [A] total of 36 scripts.
>
> All other additions are either extensions to existing scripts
> or represent symbols or symbol collections. (Braille is not
> generally considered a script.)
This last seems highly debatable. Why is Braille not a script?
I realize that the 256 dot-patterns mean different things in different
contexts, but isn't that equally true of other scripts?
-- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.
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