"John Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick McGowan wrote: > > > And... There *is* a proposal for a unified ancient Brahmi that encompasses > > several things (non-modern) that also could be encoded on their own. This > > isn't mature yet. > > More than once during this discussion, I've thought that something approaching a general > principle might be stated as 'related dead scripts should be unified; their living > descendants may be separately encoded'. > > John Hudson
Where two 'related dead scripts' have substantial differences in shaping requirements this might create major implementation difficulties on some systems. - Chris