Re: Greek/Etruscan/Gothic Unification Proposal

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Wed Nov 19 1997 - 08:57:53 EST


Ar 11:22 -0800 1997-11-18, scr�obh John Cowan:
>
>The advantage of this scheme is that (at the expense of some
>space in the Greek block) these languages, like Coptic, become
>representable on the BMP; in addition, 27 + 31 - 11 = 47 codepoints
>are saved.

They would fit in the BMP now (and I would support that) but lots of people
don't want to hear about it. I thought that Ogham and Runic were different
(lots of fonts and users available on the net) which is one reason they are
in the BMP.

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