Marco Cimarosti wrote,
>
> Lots of people have solved the mystery:
>
> http://users.otenet.gr/~svoronan/phaistos.htm
>
Exactly.
No endorsement of either the Massey's efforts or Schomburg's
work was intended. The Schomburg link was offered because
of the site's superior graphics (and because the machine translation
had me laughing-out-loud). The Massey link was representative of
people who claim to have "cracked" the disk, figuratively speaking.
Clearly, diverse people are putting thought and effort into the
mystery of the Phaistos disk.
A standardized encoding for the symbols might do much to help
researchers and aficionados in their deciphering attempts. But,
since nothing is really known for certain about the symbols, there
would be no way to assign properties to the "characters", if they
are characters.
I'm curious about the range in the Roadmap reserved for undeciphered
scripts. Once a script is encoded by the Standard, it's more-or-less
"carved in stone". What would happen if a script were encoded in that
range and subsequently became deciphered?
Perhaps instead of reserving an area in the Standard for undeciphered
scripts, some ad hoc registry for undeciphered scripts could be set
up for the Private Use Area Plane similar to the ConScript registry
established for the PUA in the BMP.
Best regards,
James Kass.
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