Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> Peter_Constable@... wrote:
> >
> > I'm just reading a colleague's recently-completed MA thesis on
> > electronic representation of writing system descriptions,
> and that led
> > me to an insight that pertains to this recent thread:
>
> None of this looks familiar -- was it a qalam thread?

No, it was on the Unicode List. The starting message is
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unicode/message/9150>.

(Please do not reply to <unicode@...>: that's just a relay
archive. The real Unicode List is <unicode@...>, which ca be reached
through <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/distlist.html>)

The discussion branched from the announcement of Lars Marius Garshol's site
about writing systems (<http://www.ontopia.net/i18n/index.jsp>), which is
organized according to "Daniels & Bright" classification of writing systems.
But people on the Unicode List started disagreeing on the meaning of some
terms, especially "featural".

_ Marco