At 12:17 -0700 2002-07-03, Kenneth Whistler wrote: >If a script is listed there in the Roadmap for the BMP or for Plane 1, >then people can be assured that interested members of the encoding >committees have *already* made a tentative determination that >the script is suitable for encoding, although a proposal may not >actually exist yet, and of course, there are no guarantees until the >committees actually do the work on fully filled-out formal proposals.
Indeed, we might end up unifying Javanese and Balinese for instance. We don't know just now. >But if a "script", like the MIIB BurgerKing cipher mentioned today, >or chess diagram notation, is missing from the Roadmap, there is probably >a *good* reason for it not to be there, and people should think twice >(and then again) before they start proposing it for encoding in Unicode. Well... a year ago we hadn't heard of N'Ko. Things turn up all the time. >The "voice which shook the earth", from Chapter IV, verse 44 of >LIBER LIBERI vel LAPIDIS LAZULI ADUMBRATIO KABBAL� �GYPTIORUM, >one of the Holy Books of Thelema: > >http://www.nuit.org/thelema/Library/HolyBooks/LibVII.html Wow. Or indeed UAOAU.... -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
