From: Mark Davis ☕ (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Tue Jun 07 2011 - 12:30:37 CDT
The ScriptExtensions.txt file is under development, and we expect to add
more information over time. Any suggestions can be proposed at
http://unicode.org/reporting.html
Mark
*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 18:16, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>wrote:
> On 06/06/2011 07:57 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:20 PM, fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a reason why the North Indic fractions and Aegean numbers and
>>> measures
>>> are not assigned to any scripts in the ScriptExtensions.txt file?
>>>
>>> I don't really know what list of scripts they should belong to, but they
>>> don't
>>> seem very "Common".
>>>
>>
>> I don't know about Aegean but North Indic fractions are used in
>> multiple North Indian scripts including Devanagari. Please read:
>> http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3367.pdf (from
>> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pandey/)
>>
>> And perhaps you misunderstand the meaning of "common" -- it doesn't
>> mean they are common in usage. It means that they are common to more
>> than one script, whether in frequent use or rare use.
>>
>
> Right, but the ones that are common to an enumerated set of scripts
> are listed in ScriptExtensions.txt. But these are not. If they are
> only used in North Indian scripts, then they should be listed in
> ScriptExtensions.txt as associated with those scripts.
>
> ~fantasai
>
>
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