Unicode 3.0

Hey, somebody mentioned the coming new version of Unicode and Deseret=20
phonetic script, and I'm checking out the latest data.  These scripts are=
=20
included (I put a star by the ones that are new):

Latin (for just about everything!)
Greek (with new glyphs for capital/small archaic letters: stigma, digamma=
,=20
qoppa, sampi
Cyrillic
Armenian
Hebrew
Arabic
* Syriac (YES!!!!)
* Thaana (Maldivian, a South Indo-Aryan language written in more-or-less=20
Arabic-based script)
Devanagari (with a ton of additions for North Dravidian, etc.)
Bengali (inc. Assamese)
Gurumkhi (Punjabi)
Gujarati (hats off to Devanagari!)
Oriya
Tamil
Telugu
Kannada
Malayalam
* Sinhala (I tried to learn this -- and it's a doozy...)
Thai
Lao
Tibetan
* Myanmar (formerly Burmese, another of my faves)
Georgian (old Xutsuri capitals included with modern Mxedruli)
Hangul (with a lot of obsolete letters)
* Ethiopic (now I can write Tech!)
* Cherokee
* Canadian Syllabics (Cree, Blackfoot, Carrier, Inuktitut, etc.)
* Ogham (pre-Christian Irish)
* Runic (Germanic Fu=FEark)
* Khmer
* Mongolian (traditional vertical script!)
More Latin
More Greek
(a ton of punctuations, currency marks, dingbats)
Braille patters
(some Asian symbols)
Japanese Hiragana and Katakana
Hangul (modern)
BoPoMoFo (pre-Communist Chinese phonetic script)
(more Asian symbols)
(the unified CJK ideographs -- thousands and thousands...)
* Yi syllabry
(more CKJ symbols)
Latin, Armenian and Hebrew special letter forms
Arabic special letter forms (including Quranic notations)
(halfwidths, surrogates, private use, the end)

Now Deseret isn't in the main script in 3.0; it is on the list of propose=
d=20
scripts, and it's current status is provisionally approved for Plane 1=20
Surrogates (along with Western Musical Symbols and Byzantine Musical Symb=
ols=20
-- I can't wait to see the latter...)

Shavian, Etruscan, Gothic, Linear B and Cypriot Syllabry are only=20
provisionally approved.  DW

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