RE: How Many Scripts?

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 06:39:07 EST

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Ar 19:46 -0800 1998-11-09, scr�obh Murray Sargent:
>Many languages use Braille. As such it's more of an encoding than a script.
>
>Murray

Many languages use Latin. Many languages used Cuneiform. Many languages use
CJK characters. Many languages use Cyrillic. Many languages :-) use Tengwar.

I note the following definition:

script. A set of graphic characters used for the written form of one or
more languages (ISO/IEC 10646-1 clause 4.34).

Seems to me as though Braille fits this definition.

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