On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:06:12AM -0800, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> I
> think it is entirely reasonable to look at rarely used scripts and fictional
> scripts (both of which member companies are unlikely to implement for
> reasons I doubt I need to go into here?) and categorize them a lower
> priority than that of scripts that are neither?
Sure. That's been done, and now almost everything not rarely-used or
fictional has been encoded.
> When specifically choosing between a rarely used script and a fictional
> script, the former is more appealing to me personally as I feel that there
> is a greater value to dealing with what is "real" first.
I feel there's a greater value to encoding a large body of poetry and
writing in a script in current use, rather than 50 pages (the entire
corpus of Gothic writing) that's always printed in Latin
transliteration.
-- David Starner - starner@okstate.edu "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably refering to the Internet)
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