From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 18:16:45 CDT
On May 20, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
>
> Not really. We have a well-defined repertoire and all of the
> characters have catalogue numbers. We don't know what they *mean*
> but it is certainly unlikely that any one of them is a glyph
> variant of any other one of them.
>
The problem is that we don't know how it relates to the overall size
of the script. (Or so ran the rationale against encoding.) It would
be like encoding A through F and not knowing how many additional
letters to make room for.
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