RE: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-12 Thread Marco Cimarosti
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)

2001-12-11 Thread James Kass
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

Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Everson
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,

Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-11 Thread Rick McGowan
Isn't accretion disk something that forms around a black hole?

Undeciphered scripts (Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk))

2001-12-11 Thread Stefan Persson
- 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

Re: Undeciphered scripts (Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk))

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Everson
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)

2001-12-11 Thread James Kass
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

A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-10 Thread Marco Cimarosti
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