On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:35:55 -0700, Rick McGowan wrote: > > The unified Brahmis proposal exactly proposes unification of systems with > vastly different rendering behavior. That's part of the controversy with it. > But that proposal is currently sitting on a siding waiting to be taken up > by the Indic list.
Well, I'll kick things off if you like, by giving my opinion that the proposal attempts to over-unify a too wide range of scripts with quite different encoding and rendering requirements. What I would really like to see is individual proposals for some of the major Brahmic scripts. For example, the excellent description of the Tocharian script (surely the worst made-up name for a dead script ever) at http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/idg/toch/tochbr.htm could be the basis of a proposal for this important Brahmic script. There is a considerable body of Tocharian material, and it would be much easier to encode this material using a dedicated Tocharian block than using a generic Brahmic encoding model. It would probably take years to get any sort of consensus on a unified Bramic script proposal, but the issues involved with a single (and in the case of Tocharian fairly uniform) script could be dealt with in a relatively short period of time. Andrew
