Forget about ancient and dead scripts. What about the future, when we start communicating with extra-terrestrials and have to start encoding all the other scripts in the galaxy! utf-googoolplex!
;-) (And don't nobody bring up klingon...) And so the new year begins on the Unicode list.... tex Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > John Wilcock wrote: > > All *known* vertical scripts! What happens if someone discovers a > > hitherto-unknown vertical script that is never written horizontally? > > There are worse things than thi: what if someone discovers a script with > more than 1,114,111 characters? Back to the drawing board to redesign all > the UTF's! > > :-) > _ Marco -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin Director, International Business mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1-781-280-4271 the Progress Company Fax: +1-781-280-4655 ------------------------------------------------------------- For a compelling demonstration for Unicode: http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html

