From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Mon Sep 20 2004 - 18:13:32 CDT
>> There is no specific allocation
> > for Gregg or Pitman or any other particular system, but
> > 11E00..11FFF is currently blocked out for shorthands, simply
> > as a placeholder to indicate that we know such systems
> > exist and that somebody might bring forth a proposal and
> > that if successful, such a proposal would require some
> > codespace allocation.
>
> That isn't the allocation shown on:
> http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/
> which shows 11E00..11EFF.
A matter of interpretation, I guess. I was just extending the
11E00 row labeled "Shorthands" to the blank 11F00 row following
it.
> From a logical point of view, wouldn't shorthands fit better
> in the Notational systems (1D000..1FFFD ) superblock than
> in the African and other syllabic scripts ( 11800..11FFF)
> superblock ?
Perhaps. The reason for it being where it is now, however, is
that the Chinook Jargon ("Kamloops Wawa") orthography is based on
Duployan shorthand.
http://www.cayoosh.net/hiyu/kamloops.html
--Ken
> There is plenty of space in either superblock,
> altho the notational systems superblock has more space
> on both an absolute and a percentage basis.
>
>
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