Re: North Indic Fractions etc.

From: Mark Davis ☕ (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Tue Jun 07 2011 - 12:30:37 CDT

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    The ScriptExtensions.txt file is under development, and we expect to add
    more information over time. Any suggestions can be proposed at
    http://unicode.org/reporting.html

    Mark

    *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*

    On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 18:16, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>wrote:

    > On 06/06/2011 07:57 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
    >
    >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:20 PM, fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
    >> wrote:
    >>
    >>> Is there a reason why the North Indic fractions and Aegean numbers and
    >>> measures
    >>> are not assigned to any scripts in the ScriptExtensions.txt file?
    >>>
    >>> I don't really know what list of scripts they should belong to, but they
    >>> don't
    >>> seem very "Common".
    >>>
    >>
    >> I don't know about Aegean but North Indic fractions are used in
    >> multiple North Indian scripts including Devanagari. Please read:
    >> http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3367.pdf (from
    >> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pandey/)
    >>
    >> And perhaps you misunderstand the meaning of "common" -- it doesn't
    >> mean they are common in usage. It means that they are common to more
    >> than one script, whether in frequent use or rare use.
    >>
    >
    > Right, but the ones that are common to an enumerated set of scripts
    > are listed in ScriptExtensions.txt. But these are not. If they are
    > only used in North Indian scripts, then they should be listed in
    > ScriptExtensions.txt as associated with those scripts.
    >
    > ~fantasai
    >
    >



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