Re: script count?

John Jenkins wrote:

>
> On Dec 11, 2003, at 6:53 AM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > It omits Syriac and (apparently) Chinese, and lists Japanese three
> > times
> > (Han "ideographs," hiragana, katakana),
>
> If it lists Han ideographs, then obviously it covers Chinese.
>
> In any event, Unicode has a distinction between written language and
> script. The Japanese language is written using three or four scripts.

No, there's no such thing as "ideographs," and the context -- adjacent
to the kana -- shows that it's referring to Japanese (since Unicode
lists all of Chinese, all of Japanese, and all of Korean characters
separately, and if they choose to include Chu Nom, they'll be separate
too). If "Roadmap," whatever that is, want to list three of the
components of Japanese writing separately, then they need to list Romaji
as well.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...