Re: script count?

Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > I posted my answer 16 minutes before you posted yours.
>
> 'Cause mine took 16 minutes more to type. :-)
>
> > Everson just said "look at Unicode," which is unhelpful for
> > two reasons.
>
> Are you in the mood for numeric answers today? Which are these two reasons?
>
> Perhaps I can guess one of them: Unicode's definition of "script" is not
> necessarily meaningful out of the context of computer encodings.

Ooh! Three reasons!

Mine were (a) Not everyone has easy access to info about Unicode, and
(b) It isn't anywhere near complete or comprehensive, especially for
question (2).
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