Jonathon Blake wrote:
>
> Peter wrote:
>
> > Which ones still aren't in Unicode?
>
> Naxi was one.
Not in WWS. Mentioned on p. 239.
> I've forgotten the name of it, but the writing system that starts at
> the bottom of the page, and ends at the top of the page is another.
Hanunoo? Not written on pages but on bamboo stems, and the bottom-to-top
may have been an anthropologist's misunderstanding.
> I don't remember if it was discussed in your book, or not, but there
> are a couple of writing systems [or maybe just languages that share
> the same writing system] that start on the left hand side of the page,
> but go up diagonally. [These aren't the languages that are described
> in Gulliver's Travels, though they share that quality.]
I certainly would like to hear of such a script. Built-in waste of
paper!
> > my fonts for scripts that haven't yet been incorporated?
>
> If their text editor / word processor allows the user to create
> language specific styles, then they treat the language font as a weird
> Latin-1 font.
>
> If their text editor/word processor does not allow language specific
> styles, then they are out of luck.
--
Peter T. Daniels
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