RE: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)
Rick McGowan wrote: Isn't accretion disk something that forms around a black hole? Black holes? I always knew it was a star gate! :-) _ Marco
Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)
Marco Cimarosti wrote, Lots of people have solved the mystery: http://users.otenet.gr/~svoronan/phaistos.htm Exactly. No endorsement of either the Massey's efforts or Schomburg's work was intended. The Schomburg link was offered because of the site's superior graphics (and because the machine translation had me laughing-out-loud). The Massey link was representative of people who claim to have cracked the disk, figuratively speaking. Clearly, diverse people are putting thought and effort into the mystery of the Phaistos disk. A standardized encoding for the symbols might do much to help researchers and aficionados in their deciphering attempts. But, since nothing is really known for certain about the symbols, there would be no way to assign properties to the characters, if they are characters. I'm curious about the range in the Roadmap reserved for undeciphered scripts. Once a script is encoded by the Standard, it's more-or-less carved in stone. What would happen if a script were encoded in that range and subsequently became deciphered? Perhaps instead of reserving an area in the Standard for undeciphered scripts, some ad hoc registry for undeciphered scripts could be set up for the Private Use Area Plane similar to the ConScript registry established for the PUA in the BMP. Best regards, James Kass.
Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)
At 10:18 -0800 2001-12-11, James Kass wrote: A standardized encoding for the symbols might do much to help researchers and aficionados in their deciphering attempts. But, since nothing is really known for certain about the symbols, there would be no way to assign properties to the characters, if they are characters. Re: Phaistos, it's been thought that until a second document comes to light, there's not much to say. I'm curious about the range in the Roadmap reserved for undeciphered scripts. Once a script is encoded by the Standard, it's more-or-less carved in stone. What would happen if a script were encoded in that range and subsequently became deciphered? The sky would fall. Perhaps instead of reserving an area in the Standard for undeciphered scripts, some ad hoc registry for undeciphered scripts could be set up for the Private Use Area Plane similar to the ConScript registry established for the PUA in the BMP. Didn't I say I was going to put Phaistos in the ConScript registry? I forgot. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)
Isn't accretion disk something that forms around a black hole?
Undeciphered scripts (Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk))
- Original Message - From: James Kass [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marco Cimarosti [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Unicode List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 11 december 2001 19:18 Subject: Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk) I'm curious about the range in the Roadmap reserved for undeciphered scripts. Once a script is encoded by the Standard, it's more-or-less carved in stone. What would happen if a script were encoded in that range and subsequently became deciphered? And how would you be able to know if character x is a different character than character y, or just a glyph variant? Stefan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Undeciphered scripts (Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk))
At 19:50 +0100 2001-12-11, Stefan Persson wrote: And how would you be able to know if character x is a different character than character y, or just a glyph variant? The Phaistos repertoire anyway is pretty small. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)
Michael Everson wrote, Re: Phaistos, it's been thought that until a second document comes to light, there's not much to say. A bilingual would be nice. Didn't I say I was going to put Phaistos in the ConScript registry? I forgot. Cool. Is the BMP PUA big enough for all the ConScripts and all the undeciphered script glyphs? Please consider adding the virama to the 45 other symbols. The vertical separator could probably be covered by U+007C. Best regards, James Kass.
A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)
James Kass wrote: The Massey's aver that the mystery is solved, http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/phaistos/ Lots of people have solved the mystery: http://users.otenet.gr/~svoronan/phaistos.htm Because no two translation look alike, the Disk clearly belongs to the same family as the Dao De Jing. _ Marco
