Re: hexatridecimal internationalisation

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2007 - 15:58:15 CDT

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    On 6/24/2007 7:56 AM, Michael Maxwell wrote:
    > George W Gerrity wrote:
    > > The point is that there is ... absolutely no future for
    > (*human-readable*) representations
    > > in bases larger than 16 ...
    >
    This does not mean that there's no use for continuing support of
    historical representations of such numbers, so clearly it was not meant
    as an argument against encoding Mayan numerals.
    >
    > Someone on this list will doubtless correct me, but I don't believe
    > the Mayan script, either the numbers or the pictograms, has been
    > encoded in Unicode.
    It's not yet encoded. You can check the roadmaps or the proposed scripts
    pages on the unicode web site for further information. The roadmap is a
    non-binding, tentative summary of possible locations and magnitude of
    outstanding scripts (as well as a summary of already encoded and pending
    scripts), with links to proposal documents for existing proposals.

    A./



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