Re: ISO 15924: Different Arabic scripts?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Nov 18 2005 - 10:04:03 CST

  • Next message: Mark E. Shoulson: "Re: Hebrew script in IDN (was Exemplar Characters)"

    At 06:59 -0800 2005-11-18, Doug Ewell wrote:

    >There would probably have to be either an orthographic difference of
    >some sort (certain words are spelled differently) or a genuine
    >literacy threshold (a noticeable percentage of readers of one
    >variant are unable to read the other) in order to consider this a
    >separate script.

    "...in order to consider these variants of the Arabic script
    significant enough to encode uniquely in ISO 15924." 

    -- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 18 2005 - 10:09:38 CST