RE: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space i

[Michael Everson]

At 18:44 +0100 2001-02-26, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>Michael Everson wrote:
>>  Yes, an alphabet proper is usually the subset of an alphabetic
>>  script. Armenian seems to be the exception, as it is only used for
>>  one language; Georgian, Latin, Cyrillic, Ogham, Runic, and Greek have
>>  been used for other languages.
>
>I miss the other language(s) for the Georgian script.

Svan and Mingrelian.

>(BTW, in a previous message Tamil was given as an example of a
>single-language script, but I think that it is used also for Sanskrit).

Tamil Grantha, anyway.
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