Subject: RE: [idn] something a little lighter for the weekend

From: "Michel Suignard" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:13:38 -0800

The 2 current amendments of ISO/IEC 10646 (The ISO sibling of Unicode) being processed are adding about 10 new scripts. And a new amendment will be initiated in September with few more scripts. Any scheme based on a finite number of scripts is doomed.

Michel 

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From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell

Adam M. Costello <idn dot amc plus 0 at nicemice dot net dot
RemoveThisWord> wrote:

> According to the Unicode standard, there are 52 scripts.

There may be 52 scripts currently encoded in Unicode, but I am sure Unicode does not claim that is the total number of scripts in the world.
Others can and will be encoded.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/