--On Monday, 28 February, 2005 08:23 -0800 Doug Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adam M. Costello <idn dot amc plus 0 at nicemice dot net dot > RemoveThisWord> wrote: > >> According to the Unicode standard, there are 52 scripts. > > There may be 52 scripts currently encoded in Unicode, but I am > sure Unicode does not claim that is the total number of > scripts in the world. Others can and will be encoded. At least as important, those are "scripts" with regard to typographic relationships, more or less. The issue that started ICANN (and others) down the "language" path is that, if one wants to avoid homographs _as seen by a user who is not familiar with a different script or part of a script_, one often needs to make more constrained lists of characters than those that appear to be "scripts" from the Unicode standpoint. And, as Michel points out, the Unicode list is growing and will probably continue to grow. john
