Re: Rosetta Stone and Klingon

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Thu Jun 17 1999 - 13:40:47 EDT


Markus Kuhn wrote:

> The cover of the Unicode 2.0 Standard shows a photo of the Rosetta
> stone. I am curious whether Unicode 3.0 or ISO 10646:1999 will allow us
> to encode the entire inscription of the stone. Any idea?

No. Hieroglyphs are going to Plane 1, so they won't be in Unicode 3.0.

Everything on http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html
in the section "Characters and Scripts Accepted for Unicode"
*that is encoded in Plane 0* will be in Unicode 3.0 for a total
of 10311 new characters (modulo arithmetic errors).

This is IMHO, not official.
 

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)



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