Re: Is it true that Unicode is insufficient for Oriental languages?

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At 18:29 +0100 2003-05-22, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
>>>It looked like "Old English" writing, but it could have been
>>>called Ogham perhaps, or maybe my memory fails me.

It must be.

>But seriously, what is so special about the Gothic style that it
>needs its own block?

Both Fraktur for Mathematics and Wulfilan Gothic have been encoded.

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