At 01:29 +0000 2005-08-09, suzmccarth wrote:

>Seeing the inventory as a 'superset' clarifies it a bit. I suppose
>that decisions are made further down the line to choose the 'set'
>for keyboards etc.

I would expect a keyboard to be able to access all the characters.
There are not that many.

>How does this contrast with other scripts in Unicode?

Um. Suzanne, this question is not specific enough to answer.

Any set may be subsetted.
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