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Re: CHAT: Reformed Latin-script writing for natlangs

From:Daniel A. Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Friday, May 12, 2000, 16:15
>From: BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
>At 16:54 08.5.2000 -0500, Daniel A. Wier wrote: > >>6) Where's Bengali? Last time I checked, Bengali is spoken by as many >>people as Hindi-Urdu. And Assamese misses out too. Not every font is >>represented in this; there are clear gaps. (I have to give them credit >>for including the Syriac font though. But it only includes Estrangelo, >>not the modern "Nestorian" script used by Assyrians today.) > >Is Tibetan included? It isn't in MS Arial Unicode...
Tibetan was just added to Unicode 3.0, I think...
>And Unicode support for Coptic is bogosical as we all(?) know!
Oh that's just lumped in with Greek. Unfortunately, most Unicode fonts with Greek support lack the seven wonderful lettes used in Coptic... DaW. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com