"Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley@...> writes:

> A question comes to mind: Does this then mean that inclusion into
> Unicode signifies that such symbols, etc. are not part of the
> world's writing systems?

Inclusion in Unicode does not signify such. It does not signify not
such. There are many reasons for inclusion of a code
point--successful interoperation with national character sets for
one--but implying a definition of "writing system" is not one of them.

--deh!