Avestan and Old Persian (was: Re: Private Use Agreements ... wandering off-topic)

From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 19:29:55 EST


Ken Whistler wrote:

> Preliminary proposals have been around for encoding both Avestan and
> Old Persian Cuneiform for a long time:
> [...]
> The proposals will likely languish until Michael Everson discovers
> he has some free time on his hands to pursue consensus with
> academic Iranianists and other interested parties, or until
> someone from that community emerges as a champion

Speaking of champions, we recently "lost" one of the real champions of
many of these scripts: our dear colleague Carl-Martin Bunz, who has moved
out of Academia and onto Grecian pastures. Until another such stalwart
champion re-emerges for Avestan, nothing is likely to happen.

        Rick



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