Peter Kirk noted: > I was reviewing the Roadmap for the SMP > (http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/), in comparison with the list of > proposed new scripts, and found a few anomalies. > > "Hittite (Anatolian) Hieroglyphs/Luvian" is listed as a proposed new > script, with a draft proposal, but seems to be missing from the Roadmap.
A glitch apparently in the drafting of revised roadmap pages recently. Hittite Hieroglyphs/Luvian at 12800..1289F on the SMP. > There is no mention in the Roadmap of Egyptian Hieratic and Demotic. Is > the intention to unify these with Egyptian Hieroglyphic? We'll wait for more input on this from Egyptologists. At this point it is proving difficult enough simply to move forward on the fairly obvious set of basic Egyptian hieroglyphs needed for the Gardner set and a few Gardner additions. That set missed Unicode 4.0 and now the Unicode 5.0 in the works. One can only hope that someone will seriously champion them for an as-yet unplanned Unicode 6.0 some years hence. > Finally, another historic script not yet roadmapped is the recently > rediscovered Caucasian Albanian. See > http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/Cauc_alb.htm and This is worth further investigation. If anyone wishes to provide an analysis to clarify the status of this, that would be great. --Ken
