On 09/12/2004 20:16, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
Peter Kirk noted:
...
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.
Thank you, Ken. I am working on some ideas which might bring more input
on Egyptian and other ancient scripts. But I didn't want to waste time
e.g. on scripts for which a decision has already been taken not to
encode them.
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.
I will see if I can find anything. This seems to be a simple script, but
still not a very well attested one.
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