From: Antoine Leca (Antoine10646@leca-marti.org)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 13:06:56 EDT
On Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:18 AM C J Fynn va escriure:
> OTOH there is the example of all the Brahmi derived scripts which
> have *not* been unified.
a) *All* is incorrect. Only the ones in current use have been encoded (so
far).
b) We have several problems with legacy encodings here (the various states
of ISCII, and the fact that Thai did choose one model and ISCII another).
Also there is the rendering problems that Peter aluded (consider that a good
number of Brahmi derived scripts are still not handled correctly on the
mainstream boxes; we are in 2004, TUS 1.0 is now 12 years old).
c) The very reason for Han unification was the need to shoelace it into 16
bits (it is also the 'marque de fabrique' and the most clear success of
Unicode). There was no such incentive for the present Indian scripts. Would
have it been the case, or if the dilemma would have been between one script
in BMP or several in PSP, I bet they would have been unified promptly, and
the rendering engines would have been sent to h**l.
Antoine
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