>everyone is much too busy discussing implementation of scripts in >the ConScript registry which they admit will probably never be >encoded
I think the Phaistos discussion has been interesting and perhaps instructive to some of the lurkers, because we've discussed the issue fairly openly using some of the criteria to accept or reject characters, name them, and opened a whole can of worms regarding ancient script attestation, directionality, and modern font use. These are interesting questions, and it is interesting to discuss them. And it is potentially useful to MY work, which, as you know, is to fill up Unicode with all kinds of wonderful alphabets and scripts which the larger corporations may not take an interest in, but a whole lot of regular folk do indeed. Perhaps, pointless as you may think it, it hasn't been pointless at all. I made a Unicode font using PUA code positions and it was tested in a number of browsers on a number of different platforms. Having made that font, and having it work, was a step forward. And putting Phaistos in the CSUR was a kindness to people who do take an interest in the script, and there are an awful lot of pages out there which do. >getting remedial CSS lessons Sorry I'm not a clever programmer like you are, MichKa, but you could be a little less snotty. :-) In point of fact, I hadn't bothered to mark the font in my first draft of the Phaistos text, and OmniWeb under OS X read it anyway because the two are clever about knowing what characters are in the fonts available. Other browsers and OSes aren't as smart, so I added the font tag. That's not recommended, but CSS is, and frankly I find the CSS specification rather bizarre and certainly not user-friendly, which is why I have not studied it assiduously. I have had other things to do, like reading N'Ko and New Tai Lue dictionaries looking for ordering data. It's summer. We're indulging ourselves a little, but it's not as pointless as you would have it, and you could be a bit more patient with us. We're just as serious about Unicode as you are. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
