At 21:47 -0800 2002-03-10, Doug Ewell wrote:
>You do realize, of course, that any sort of work done with Old Persian
>Cuneiform based on N1639 should be limited to laboratory
>experimentation. Not only is this script not in Unicode, it's been
>relegated to the "under investigation" list, a pool of quicksand from
>which few scripts have ever been rescued.
That isn't true. They get rescued. It just takes time and resource to do it.
>The fact that there's a block in the Roadmap for Old Persian Cuneiform
>starting at U+103A0 is no guarantee of anything. Please don't
>distribute keyboards or anything else using this proposed encoding, at
>least not until it comes *much* closer to acceptance.
I agree completely!
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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