[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2002-06-11 16:26 UTC:
> static sym iso_10646_18_syms[] = {  /* 0x1200 - 0x137F */

So I guess the "18" comes from the fact that Ethiopic starts in
row 18 (= 0x12) of plane 0 of group 0 of ISO 10646.

I'd rather have used the ISO 10646 collection number for
Ethiopic, which is 73, or the ISO 15924 code for the Ethiopian
script, which is "Ethi".

http://www.evertype.com/globalization.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/ucs-collections.txt

Markus

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