Re: Encoding the Nsibidi script (African) for writing the Igbo language

2019-11-11 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Le lun. 11 nov. 2019 à 17:31, Markus Scherer a écrit : > We generally assign the script code when the script is in the pipeline for > a near-future version of Unicode, which demonstrates that it's "a candidate > for encoding". We also want the name of the script to be settled, so that > the

Re: Encoding the Nsibidi script (African) for writing the Igbo language

2019-11-11 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Names of this script can very a bit "Nsibidi", "Nsibiri", but not a lot (d/r variation may be phonetic remonization in one of the supported languages). It is stable across various sites. Uniqueness is quite easy to assert, there's not a lot of ideographic scripts, at least in modern use. But

Re: Encoding the Nsibidi script (African) for writing the Igbo language

2019-11-11 Thread Markus Scherer via Unicode
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 4:03 AM Philippe Verdy via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > But first there's still no code in ISO 15924 (first step easy to complete > before encoding in the UCS). > That's not first; it's nearly last. The script code standard says "In general, script codes shall

Encoding the Nsibidi script (African) for writing the Igbo language

2019-11-11 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Encoding the Nsibidi script (African) for writing the Efik, Ekoi, Ibibio, Igbo language. See this site as an example of use, with links to published educational books. http://blog.nsibiri.org/ Also this online dictionary: https://fr.scribd.com/doc/281219778/Ikpokwu Other links: