Re: How Many Scripts?

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Mon Nov 09 1998 - 22:19:55 EST


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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