On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote: >As *characters*? Why?
National flags are a far cry, true. Naval signalling ones perhaps aren't. They stand for characters and I believe in some variations for entire well-known concepts. They are utilized in a way we would expect characters to be. I don't think the entire collection of flags used around the world coincides neatly enough with an already encoded script to be considered pure glyph variants. And colors are certainly meaningful in this context. (I can't fathom why anyone would want to encode those, though. Anything you can do with flags you can do with ordinary characters, only more efficiently. However, this could serve as an example of a script which relies on color as an essential feature.) Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2