Forget about ancient and dead scripts. What about the future, when we
start communicating with extra-terrestrials and have to start encoding
all the other scripts in the galaxy! utf-googoolplex!
;-)
(And don't nobody bring up klingon...)
And so the new year begins on the Unicode list....
tex
Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>
> John Wilcock wrote:
> > All *known* vertical scripts! What happens if someone discovers a
> > hitherto-unknown vertical script that is never written horizontally?
>
> There are worse things than thi: what if someone discovers a script with
> more than 1,114,111 characters? Back to the drawing board to redesign all
> the UTF's!
>
> :-)
> _ Marco
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