William Overington had written: > the proposal for encoding of the Phaistos Disk Script into Unicode
> [...] was rejected. Is this really for a purported reason that the > script is only found on one item at present? Michael Everson wrote: > That, and the fact that it hasn't been deciphered. Which implies that you really cannot tell what constitutes a character, in that script, nor its writing-direction. William Overington had written: > I noticed in particular that the characters are non-contiguous within > themselves. This is not enough to decide what constitutes a character. E. g. the cyrillic character "Ы" is non-contiguous; in the Latin script, when "f" and "l" are ligated, they still constitute two characters. Best wishes, Otto Stolz
