At 17:26 +0000 2005-08-21, suzmccarth wrote:

>I think Mr. Daniels' comment about the sacred domain for Cherokee, by
>which I assume he meant native religion not Christianity,

No, they use in Christian contexts too. There's a book listed on my
Cool Bibliography (http://www.evertype.com/scriptbib.html) by
Margaret Bender which details the modern uses of the Cherokee script.

>I have been a student of script standardization processes for a long
>time but now see how Unicode is a significant player in script
>standardization.

Yes, it is. So was ASCII, in its day, and Latin 1. The Universal
Character Set is a wonderful amd ambitious project, and it is
heartwarming to see its implementation and acceptance grow.
--
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com