Re: North Indic Fractions etc.

From: Mark Davis ☕ (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Tue Jun 07 2011 - 12:33:07 CDT

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    > 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

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    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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