On 27 Feb 2014, at 02:32, Shriramana Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:
> Given that Unicode encodes scripts and not languages, how appropriate is it > to call the BMP and the SMP as the multi*lingual* planes? You are more than two decades late in asking this. It may have seemed more appropriate in an 8-bit code page world where rather small subsets limited the number of languages accessible by one or another part of ISO/IEC 8859. A new term like “multiscriptal” would not have been appropriate. File this under “We know the term ‘ideograph’ is a misnomer." Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
