From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Dec 09 2004 - 16:39:50 CST
On 09/12/2004 20:16, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>Peter Kirk noted:
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>>There is no mention in the Roadmap of Egyptian Hieratic and Demotic. Is
>>the intention to unify these with Egyptian Hieroglyphic?
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>We'll wait for more input on this from Egyptologists. At this
>point it is proving difficult enough simply to move forward on
>the fairly obvious set of basic Egyptian hieroglyphs needed
>for the Gardner set and a few Gardner additions. That set
>missed Unicode 4.0 and now the Unicode 5.0 in the works. One
>can only hope that someone will seriously champion them for
>an as-yet unplanned Unicode 6.0 some years hence.
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Thank you, Ken. I am working on some ideas which might bring more input
on Egyptian and other ancient scripts. But I didn't want to waste time
e.g. on scripts for which a decision has already been taken not to
encode them.
>>Finally, another historic script not yet roadmapped is the recently
>>rediscovered Caucasian Albanian. See
>>http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/Cauc_alb.htm and
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>This is worth further investigation. If anyone wishes to
>provide an analysis to clarify the status of this, that
>would be great.
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I will see if I can find anything. This seems to be a simple script, but
still not a very well attested one.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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