At 11:02 -0800 2002-01-18, Barry Caplan wrote: >>>There are plenty of characters which exist in the literature that >>>are not ended in Unicode, and in fact are specifically excluded: >>>those of written but dead languages. >> >>They are not only not excluded, they are included: Runic and Deseret >>are just the beginning. There are many pending proposals for things >>like hieroglyphs and cuneiform. > >Now that there are kluges that allow for extra room. But wasn't it >not always the case historically speaking that these languages were, >shall we say, less than welcome?
What do you mean, "less than welcome"? By whom? It's always been intended to be the Universal Character Set. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
