From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 1827
Date: 2003-12-11
>In my lawyer's waiting room last month, in the order they came to mind:
> 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: 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.
>
> Part of this discrepancy may be due to different perspectives, i.e.
> different reasons for counting. E.g., it doesn't make sense to consider
> katakana and hiragana as two separate "scripts", apart the fact that they
> are encoded in two different "blocks" in Unicode.
>
> But the biggest reason for the difference is probably where you draw the
> line between what is "used today" and what isn't, or different information
> about the current status of some scripts.
>
> Peter Daniels, could you please give the list of your 32 scripts, so we can
> see the 20 scripts which make the difference?