Andrew Dunbar wrote:

>
> --- "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Michael Everson
> > <everson@...> wrote:
> > > > At 01:29 +0000 2005-08-09, suzmccarth wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would expect a keyboard to be able to access
> > > > all the characters. There are not that many.
> > >
> > > 284 in the proposal. That seems a lot to me, even
> > > if you rely on the digits on the keypad for
> > > numbers. You couldn't squeeze them all in just
> > > using SHIFT and ALT-GR. CTRL and ALT are
> > > pretty well reserved to applications. You may well
> > > have to resort to dead keys for the diacritics,
> > > though they won't always be obvious - for keying,
> > > is it CU or YU that is JU with a vertical pair of
> > > dots added?
> > >
> > > The key stickers would be pretty cramped - 6
> > > character per key! (4 Vai and 1 or 2 ASCII
> > > characters marked.)
> > >
> > > > >How does this contrast with other scripts in
> > > > Unicode?
> > > >
> > > > Um. Suzanne, this question is not specific
> > > > enough to answer.
> > > >
> > > > Any set may be subsetted.
> > >
> > > CJK is probably the most heavily subsetted in
> > > terms of numbers omitted characters.
> > >
> > > And the 'Latin script' most heavily of all in
> > > terms of percentages.
> >
> > Once again, what does all this business of how
> > Unicode or computers handle scripts have to do with
> > _writing systems_?
>
> Please clarify for us the difference between "script"
> and "writing system" above so that we can see how
> you have not just answered your own question.

"Script" in Richard's messages clearly has to do with computer input
schemes -- the sort of thing Suzanne used to pester us with all the time
and ceased doing, perhaps because she's found a computer discussion list
where such queries are more appropriate. There must be scores or
hundreds of computer discussion lists, but there is only one writing
systems discussion list that I know of. Can't it be dedicated to the
discussion of writing systems, and not to computer implementations
thereof?

Has Andrew Dunbar contributed to the discussion of writing systems?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...