Re: Phonetics

On 4/17/07, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> >Well, if you're wondering what the Unicode Consortium's criteria are,
> >you might start by reading http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn26/.
>
> That was extremely interesting.  Thank you.
Glad you found it so.

There's another technical distinction made in Unicode contexts that
hasn't come up in the "abstract character" thread, but is found
peripherally in the above TN: that between a "script" (examples:
Cyrillic, Han, Hiragana) and a "writing system" (e.g. the Russian
alphabet, the Japanese writing system).  Unicode encodes scripts; it
makes no attempt to encode the various subsets, combinations, and
rules that comprise writing systems.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>