From: Elliotte Harold (elharo@metalab.unc.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2006 - 12:42:36 CST
Michael Everson wrote:
> Please see
> http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n3066r-phaistos.pdf
I accept your arguments that we can reasonably identify and enumerate
the characters in advance of decipherment.
I do wonder, however, about the assignment of Unicode properties such as
punctuation and LTR to individual characters. That seems to be a big
leap, based on very little actual evidence. A second instance of the
script could completely overturn all of this.
If the disc is encoded at this time, are those properties then set in
stone? Could we change them later?
Perhaps most importantly, should I be worried that you posted this on
April 1? :-)
-- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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