From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 16:44:55 CDT
At 12:12 -0700 2004-05-10, Mike Ayers wrote:
>> But all this leads me to finally ask: what does "script" mean? It
>> seems clear to me that although the term has been used throughout the
>> Phoenician debate, not everyone is using it the same way. I know
>> that there is a definition of "script" that is used for encoding
>> purposes, but can I find it written anywhere, or is it more of an
>> ephemeral thing?
>
[PA] The glossary has « A collection of symbols used to represent
textual information in one or more writing systems. »
Chapter 6 also defines Writing Systems summarized by Table 6-1 Typology
of Scripts (Writing Systems then Scripts) :
A writing system is then defined as « A set of rules for using one or
more scripts to write a particular language. Examples include the
American English writing System, the British English writing system, the
French writing system, and the Japanese writing system. »
Writing
System
Type Unicode Script(s)
-------- ------------------
«
Alphabets: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Thaana, Georgian, Ogham,
Runic, Mongolian, Old Italic, Gothic, Ugaritic,
Deseret, Shavian,
Osmanya
Abjads: Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac
Abugidas: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu,
Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Myanmar,
Tagalog, Hanunóo, Buhid, Tagbanwa, Khmer, Limbu, Tai Le
Logosyllabaries: Han
Simple Syllabaries: Cherokee, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Yi, Linear
B, Cypriot
Featural Syllabaries: Ethiopic, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Hangul
»
Note : «Table 6-1 lists all of the scripts currently encoded in the
Unicode Standard, showing the
writing system type for each. The list is an approximate guide, rather
than a definitive classification,
because of the mix of features seen in many scripts. The writing systems
for some
languages may be quite complex, mixing more than one writing system
together in a composite
system. Japanese is the best example; it mixes a logosyllabary (Han),
two syllabaries
(Hiragana and Katakana), and one alphabet (Latin, for romaji).»
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