Allow me a naïve question: what is the purpose of encoding characters(maybe)
found in *one* single written(maybe) document?
A puzzled Marco
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From: John Jenkins [mailto:jenkins@apple.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 5:43 PM
To: Unicode List
Subject: Re: Out-of-topic: script direction
on 1/12/00 6:04 AM, Michael Everson at everson@egt.ie wrote:
> Ar 13:13 +0000 2000-01-12, scríobh Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com:
>
>> On the Phaistos Disk the text(probably) runs in a spiral from outside to
>> inside(probably); it is the only document we have of this script (no one
>> dare propose it for encoding, I hope...).
>
> You will hardly be surprised to read
> http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/pdf/phaistos.pdf
>
I independently proposed it for encoding in Unicode; see
http://www.unicode.org/pending/phaistos/Phaistos.pdf. Its current UTC
status is "not accepted," which means it's dang unlikely ever to make it in.
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