RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: Peter Lofting (lofting@apple.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 17:00:00 EST

  • Next message: Michael Everson: "RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?"

    At 10:53 AM +0000 12/3/03, Michael Everson wrote:
    >>The other good thing could be to include also the script name in a
    >>typical language using that script natively (for example the
    >>"lastresorthebrew" glyph usezd for the hebrew block should not only
    >>display "HEBREW" with ASCII letters on the top, but also the Hebrew
    >>term for "HEBREW")...
    >
    >You are welcome to draw up a list of all of the "native" names.

    FYI the 132 candidate translation names are listed below. This does
    not include 14 Last Resort glyphs with Latin or technical block
    names, nor another 90 which use both lines for the block name.

    Thaana
    Mandaic
    Kannada
    Cyrillic Sup.
    Armenian
    Phoenician
    Devanagari
    Malayalam
    Ethiopic
    Bengali
    Sinhala
    Hebrew
    Gurmikhi
    Thai
    Avestan
    Arabic
    Gujarati
    Lao
    Ogham
    Pahlavi
    Oriya
    Tibetan
    Runic
    Basic Greek
    Syriac
    Tifinagh
    Tamil
    Myanmar
    Tagalog
    Cyrillic
    Aramaic
    Smaritan
    Telugu
    Georgian
    Hanunoo
    Buhid
    New Tai lu
    Siddham
    Tagbanwa
    Lanna
    Lepcha
    Khmer
    Buginese
    Kayah Li
    Mongolian
    Batak
    'Phags Pa
    Glagolitic
    Cham
    Javanese
    Tai Le
    Meithei
    Greek Ext
    Coptic
    Siloti Nagri
    Ethiopic Ext.
    Viet Thai
    Limbu
    Ol
    Hiragana
    Newari
    Katakana
    Bopomofo
    Old italic
    Chakma
    Yi Syllables
    Gothic
    Kanbun
    Yi Radicals
    Old Permic
    Linear A
    Deseret
    Osmanya
    Buthakukye
    Nabataean
    Byblos
    Kaithi
    Vai
    Pollard
    Bassa
    Carian
    Protoelamite
    Rejang
    Bamum
    shavian
    Cyriot
    Numidian
    Bramhi
    Landa
    Paucartambo
    Cyprominoan
    Meroitic
    Lydian
    Pyu
    Modi
    Woleai
    Iberian
    Balti
    Elymaic
    Balinese
    Chalukya
    Shorthands
    Lycian
    Uighur
    Soyombo
    Chola
    Tengwar
    Old Turkik
    Kharosthi
    Ahom
    Satavahana
    Cirth
    Elbasan
    Palmyrene
    Hatran
    Turkestani
    Takri
    Aiha
    Aymara
    Tangut
    Engsvanyali
    Blisssymbols
    Kauder
    Alpine
    Jurchin
    N'Ko
    Sarati
    Kawi
    Indus
    RongoRongo

    See all 236 Last Resort glyphs for yourself in
    http://developer.apple.com/fonts/LastResortFont/LastResortGlyphs5pp.pdf



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