>Where did Thomas Mack see the Devanagari codes? Maybe via the on-line
>charts?
>
>I think an increasing number of people are looking at the charts on-line
>and
>thinking that all details of usage are covered. If you look at the
>introductory page to the online charts, at:
> http://charts.unicode.org/charts.html
>you'll see the following disclaimer:
>
> "Don't assume that because you can see on the page Unicode's
> repertoire of characters for a given script that you fully
> understand the process by which those characters are used to
> represent languages written in that script."
>
>That ought to be in 24-point animated blinking type. Maybe someone could
>prevail upon the webmaster to make that sentence more visible on the page.
>
This disclaimer is actually present on each of the code chart pages,
ungrammatical though it is. :-)
It certainly isn't unreasonable to hope that it can be made more
obvious...
=====
John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
tseng@blueneptune.com
http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng
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