From: Deborah Anderson, Vis. Scholar, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
Date: May 20, 2001
Status Report on Aegean Script Proposal (Linear B, Aegean Numbers and Cypriot Syllabary)
A revised version of the Aegean scripts proposal was created by Michael Eversion (with assistance from myself) on 3 April 2001. It is located at: http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/pdf/n2327-aegean.pdf and is incorporated in the UCS Proposal ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2327. This represents an updated version of the earlier document (http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/pdf/aegean.pdf) and profits from comments by the Committee on the Linear B Signary, sent on 12 February 2001.� This most recent version will be reviewed carefully by Yves Duhoux (D�partement d'�tudes grecques, latines et orientales, Facult� de Philosophie et Lettres, Universit� Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and� Ivo Hajnal (University of Innsbruck). A copy of the version will also be sent to Jos� Melena (Universidad del Pais Vasco) and Jose-Pierre Olivier (Fonds National Belge de la Recherche Scientifique).
The Linear B (=Mycenaean) scholarly community is very interested in seeing Linear B included in Unicode and passed a resolution at the Eleventh Mycenological Colloquium at Austin, Texas, in May 8�12, 2000 to this effect. The Co-chair of the Committee on Scholarly Tools and Resources for this group, Yves Duhoux, is taking an active role in seeing the proposal for Linear B proposal (and other Aegean scripts) move forward.
The full proposal should be ready over the summer.