> It's better than not knowing what range the thing is in. It helps the > user know he has received, say, Telugu data or whatever.
Only if the user know what Telugu may look like. How many users other than those sign up the Unicode malling list know the shape of more than 10 scripts ?
Actually, if you look at the Last Resort Glyphs (at a large enough size) you will see that the block name and range numbers are part of the image. See http://developer.apple.com/fonts/LastResortFont/
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