On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:05:54 +0200 Manuel Strehl <[email protected]> wrote: > For example, Russia has only Cyrl associated, while, as far as I can > tell, at least Latn and Arab should also be mentioned, also perhaps > some historic scripts.
As has been pointed out, you'll have to be careful what your criteria are, or else you'll end up with Latn wherever there's been internet access, Arab wherever there are Moslems, and Hebr wherever there are open Jews. How do you handle Classical Greek inscriptions on public buildings in the Western World? What about small amounts of Greek on crucifixes? How do you handle Chinatowns? Tourist areas can cause complications as elsewhere. Does the number of Japanese shop signs in Bangkok cause one to add Japanese scripts to Thailand? Cyrillic is making an appearance in Pattaya because of the Russian tourists. Tourist scripts could overwhelm the traditional, second scripts such as Cambodian (known as the Khom script in Thailand and nowadays most prominently used for tattoos and amulets, but previously used for Pali) and Tai Tham. Richard.
