Re: Searching data: map countries to scripts

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Jonathan Rosenne <
jonathan.rosenne_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I can state that for Israel the scripts in common use are Hebrew, Latin
> (mainly for English but also for several other languages), Arabic and
> Cyrillic.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jony Rosenne
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org]
> > On Behalf Of Manuel Strehl
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 3:58 PM
> > To: Unicode Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: Searching data: map countries to scripts
> >
> > First of all, thanks for all the answers.
> >
> > It's quite interesting for me to learn, that data here is such
> > fragmented. As calligrapher, who once was delighted to learn about the
> > Latf script tag in the context of RFC 5646 et al., I guess I was way
> > too naive when starting the scripts part of codepoints.net.
> >
> > @Doug Ewell: Yes, I wondered, why that was added to Unicode, when I
> > read about Shavian first (in the context of Unicode codepoints).
> >
> > @Asmus Freytag: Thanks for the pointer! It seems however to become a
> > completely new and open-ended project to collect that data. Anyway it
> > goes way beyond the scope I planned for codepoints.net, where the
> > focus lies on individual codepoints, and I wanted to give a convenient
> > way to find those "on the globe".
> >
> > My next step will be presumably, to focus on ISO 15924 scripts and
> > there the ones actually used in Unicode. When I can get that into a
> > reasonable shape (in reasonable time) without digging through
> > mountains of data, it would suffice for codepoints.net.
> >
> > Apart from that collecting the data about scripts in use seems still
> > to be an interesting topic. I'll think about a way to collect, present
> > and maintain such a database.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Manuel
>
>
>
—Reply—
I do believe that Israel and Palestine (the Gaza Strip and West Bank areas)
also use the Greek alphabet, because there are several Eastern Greek
Orthodox assemblies there. Thank You!

Robert Lloyd Wheelock
International Symbolism Research Institute
Augusta, ME U.S.A.
Received on Tue Aug 21 2012 - 15:59:53 CDT