Re: ISO-15924 script nodes and UAX#24 script IDs

From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 13:28:18 CDT

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From: "Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>
> I know that now ISO15924 publishes 4-letter codes for scripts used in
> Bibliographic references and that it contains more scritps than in Unicode as
> ISO-15924 needs separate codes for variants that are unified for Unicode
> encoding.
> (...)
> For these scripts, does Unicode need to define its own script ID?
> Or shouldn't simply Unicode deprecate script IDs in favor of ISO-15924 codes?
> This may be important because UAX#24 is a normative reference in the W3C CSS3
> specification, and may be the existing Unicode IDs should become aliases of
> ISO-15924 codes.

I sent exactly the same request to the administrative Unicode report form, with
an additional comment related to script code stability (important for documents
created and styled with CSS3)...

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