Phaistos

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 11:49:21 EDT


At 09:44 -0600 2001-10-08, John H. Jenkins wrote:

>No, it wasn't rejected. Its official status with UTC is "not
>approved." Basically, there was no strong reason to go either way
>on it. It appears to be a real script (or a board game), and there
>are people who want to be able to work with the script as part of
>the decipherment process. On the other hand, there *is* just the
>one document (or board game), so there's only so much one can do.
>
>And it remains the only encoding proposal sent to the UTC which
>contains the entire known corpus of writing in the script as a part
>of the proposal.

I think I'll put Phaistos into the CSUR.

About N2378, please ignore pages 10-16 until N2378R is issued.

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