Re: Encoding the Nsibidi script (African) for writing the Igbo language

2019-11-11 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Le lun. 11 nov. 2019 à 17:31, Markus Scherer a écrit : > We generally assign the script code when the script is in the pipeline for > a near-future version of Unicode, which demonstrates that it's "a candidate > for encoding". We also want the name of the script to be settled, so that > the scrip

Re: Encoding the Nsibidi script (African) for writing the Igbo language

2019-11-11 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Names of this script can very a bit "Nsibidi", "Nsibiri", but not a lot (d/r variation may be phonetic remonization in one of the supported languages). It is stable across various sites. Uniqueness is quite easy to assert, there's not a lot of ideographic scripts, at least in modern use. But still

Re: Encoding the Nsibidi script (African) for writing the Igbo language

2019-11-11 Thread Markus Scherer via Unicode
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 4:03 AM Philippe Verdy via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > But first there's still no code in ISO 15924 (first step easy to complete > before encoding in the UCS). > That's not first; it's nearly last. The script code standard says "In general, script codes shall