Since I've been looking for fonts I ancountered the word Unicode. What is
it? How can I get all those neat scripts like Thaana and (especially)
Mongolian vertical script?=20
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> Van: Danny Wier <dawier@...>
> Aan: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
> Onderwerp: Unicode 3.0
> Datum: vrijdag 1 oktober 1999 2:11
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> Hey, somebody mentioned the coming new version of Unicode and Deseret=20
> phonetic script, and I'm checking out the latest data. These scripts a=
re
> included (I put a star by the ones that are new):
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> 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-les=
s=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)
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> Now Deseret isn't in the main script in 3.0; it is on the list of
proposed=20
> scripts, and it's current status is provisionally approved for Plane 1=20
> Surrogates (along with Western Musical Symbols and Byzantine Musical
Symbols=20
> -- I can't wait to see the latter...)
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> Shavian, Etruscan, Gothic, Linear B and Cypriot Syllabry are only=20
> provisionally approved. DW
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