Ar 09:57 -0800 2000-12-18, scríobh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Has any proposal >ever been made for this? Can it be considered simply a different writing >system based on the same script as Mongolian (and therefore encoded using >the existing Mongolian characters)? Looking at Uighur and Sogdian and some other things and comparing them to Mongolian to see whether they should be unified or not is something that has been considered, but it's seemed prudent to make sure Mongolian works OK before leaping forward to encode the others. And Mongolian is pretty complicated. Michael Everson ** Everson Gunn Teoranta ** http://www.egt.ie 15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach; Baile Átha Cliath 2; Éire/Ireland Mob +353 86 807 9169 ** Fax +353 1 478 2597 ** Vox +353 1 478 2597 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Co. Átha Cliath; Éire