Daniels & Bright also mention the Manichean script in use by the Uighurs. This script is similar in appearance to the Syriac script.
Michael Everson's Roadmap to the SMP, Plane 1 of the UCS, http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/plane1-roadmap-table.html , shows places
allocated for both the Uighur and Manichean scripts. However, both are shown as scripts for which detailed proposals have not yet been written.
Charles Cox
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> On 12/18/2000 11:23:29 AM Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>
> >The WG2 proposals were for additional *presentation forms* for
> >Uighur characters. (initial, final, medial forms)...
>
> Daniels and Bright has a section on Uighur script - something from the
same
> script history as Mongolian. I don't know how different it is from
> Mongolian. (The same family was also used for Oirat and Manchurian, and
> these are also discussed in D&B, though again I don't know much about how
> similar / different any of these are from one another). Has any proposal
> ever been made for this? Can it be considered simply a different writing
> system based on the same script as Mongolian (and therefore encoded using
> the existing Mongolian characters)?
>
>
>
> - Peter
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