Michael Everson wrote,
>
> Ornamental elements make it more difficult to decipher, certainly.
> I've updated http://www.evertype.com/standards/Arab/disc.html to
> reflect the answers I've received.
>
Here's another disk in need of decipherment:
http://home.t-online.de/home/Bernd.Schomburg/
Not wanting to tax my high school German too badly, tried
Google's beta translator.
The title of the page, Der Diskos von Phaestos, was translated to
English as... "The discotheques of Phaestos".
A proposal to encode the symbols of the disk languishes.
( http://www.unicode.org/pending/phaistos/Phaistos.pdf ,
this link appears not to work for the moment. )
Arguments against encoding seem to center around the idea that
insufficient knowledge exists about the symbols while arguments
supporting encoding suggest that a standard encoding would ease
the process of study and decipherment in our computer era.
There is merit to both sides.
The Massey's aver that the mystery is solved,
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/phaistos/
According to the Roadmap, there's a range for undeciphered
scripts at 00013400-00013FFF. What would happen if a script
encoded in that range were to be deciphered?
Best regards,
James Kass.
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