roadmap?

wow, thanks everyone.
very helpful. certainly quicker than counting.
but i'll have to go along with peter in asking what 'the roadmap' is...
and where one can find it.

On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 06:53 AM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> cowan@... wrote:
> >
> > Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
> >
> > > Just the other day I had occasion to draw up a list of (1), and the
> > > total is ca. 32 (depending where you draw the line).
> >
> > The Roadmap makes it 52: 
>
> What's "the Roadmap," and on what basis is this or that item included
> in
> the list or not?
>
> It omits Syriac and (apparently) Chinese, and lists Japanese three
> times
> (Han "ideographs," hiragana, katakana), puts a country name ("Myanmar")
> for a language/script name, lists at least one auxiliary phonetic
> system
> (Bopomofo) but not another (IPA), includes quite a few that are
> marginal
> at best and probably fully obsolete -- in short, what's "the Roadmap"?
>
> > Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic,
> > Thaana, N'Ko, Tifinagh, Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati,
> Oriya, Tamil,
> > Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Myanmar,
> Georgian,
> > Hangul, Ethiopic, Cherokee, Canadian Syllabics, Hanunoo, Buhid,
> Tagbanwa,
> > Khmer, Mongolian, Cham, Limbu, Tai Le, Tai Lue, Buginese, Batak,
> Lepcha, Kayah Li,
> > Ol Chiki, Han ideographs, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Yi, Syloti
> Nagri,
> > Varang Kshiti, Sorang Sompeng, Pahawh Hmong, Vai.
> >
> > In addition, the status of Blissymbolics, Sutton Signwriting,and
> Braille
> > is debatable.
>
> They're "scripts"?
> --
> Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@...
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