At 11:02 -0800 2002-01-18, Barry Caplan wrote:
>>>There are plenty of characters which exist in the literature that
>>>are not ended in Unicode, and in fact are specifically excluded:
>>>those of written but dead languages.
>>
>>They are not only not excluded, they are included: Runic and Deseret
>>are just the beginning. There are many pending proposals for things
>>like hieroglyphs and cuneiform.
>
>Now that there are kluges that allow for extra room. But wasn't it
>not always the case historically speaking that these languages were,
>shall we say, less than welcome?
What do you mean, "less than welcome"? By whom?
It's always been intended to be the Universal Character Set.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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