Re: Definition of Script etc.

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon May 31 2004 - 12:28:54 CDT

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Adam Twardoch wrote:

> Very recently at the Polish TeX Users' Group meeting prof. Janusz Bien
> suggested that the only viable definition of the Unicode "character" is:
>
> "Character is a primitive term that is defined by enumeration."

So a script in Unicode is a labelled subset of enumerated entities. I like that :)

John Hudson

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