David Starner, Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:55:25 -0700: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Mark Davis ☕ wrote: >> My thought exactly; people seem to be going off in the weeds. >> >> Someone in transit in the Auckland Airport in a moment of weakness took who >> Pendulums, Astrology and Runes class. Does that mark New Zealand as using >> the Runic script? >> >> The stated goal of the original question was around mapping countries to >> scripts, with some kind of cut-off point. As a first approximation, >> the data >> in CLDR could be used to map countries to languages, and languages to >> scripts. Here are the charts; the machine-readable data is in XML. >> >> http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/territory_language_information.html >> http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/languages_and_scripts.html > > He's already done that, in the first post, where he also says "Russia > has only Cyrl associated, while, as far as I can tell, at least Latn > and Arab should also be mentioned, also perhaps some historic > scripts." So we're going nowhere this thread didn't start out going.
I perceived what he said about Cyrl and Russia to be related to public, non-religious use - in Russia. His overall approach is to map public script usage to language to regions. If the map had tried to document religion related script cultivation, then the map would looked different - more diverse, and with more 'dead scripts' coming alive. -- leif halvard silli
