From: Mark Davis ☕ (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Tue Jun 07 2011 - 12:33:07 CDT
> that are used in only a few scripts
Where characters are used across most scripts, or across a number of scripts
of very different types, they'll probably remain as 'common'. Examples are
"?" or "!", or most symbols (dingbats, etc).
Mark
*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 06:41, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14@telia.com>
> wrote:
> > Devanagari: Deva
> > Gujarati: Gujr
> > Gurmukhi: Guru
> > Kaithi: Kthi
> > Landa: ????
> > Mahajani: ????
> > Maithili: ????
> > Modi: ????
> > Takri: Takr
> >
> > For four of those I could not find script codes (not coded, or to me
> unknown
> > alternate names).
> >
> > That leaves Deva Gujr Guru Kthi Takr, with the maintenance problem that
> this
> > may need to be extended in the future.
> >
> > So, as far as I can see, these lines should be added to
> ScriptExtensions.txt
> > for "NORTH INDIC..." characters:
> >
> > A830..A835 ; Deva Gujr Guru Kthi Takr # No [6] NORTH INDIC FRACTION
> > ONE QUARTER..NORTH INDIC FRACTION THREE SIXTEENTHS
> > A836..A837 ; Deva Gujr Guru Kthi Takr # So [2] NORTH INDIC QUARTER
> > MARK..NORTH INDIC PLACEHOLDER MARK
> > A838 ; Deva Gujr Guru Kthi Takr # Sc NORTH INDIC RUPEE
> MARK
> > A839 ; Deva Gujr Guru Kthi Takr # So NORTH INDIC QUANTITY
> > MARK
>
> Given that it was said that ScriptExtensions contains specific script
> info for characters "that are used in only a few scripts", and the
> above list does not seem "a few" (and what does that mean anyway) and
> given that the list also seems likely to be larger rather than
> smaller, I wonder if these deserve mention in the ScriptExtensions
> file at all.
>
> --
> Shriramana Sharma
>
>
>
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