On Feb 27, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Michael Everson wrote: > On 27 Feb 2014, at 02:32, Shriramana Sharma <samj...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Given that Unicode encodes scripts and not languages, how appropriate is it >> to call the BMP and the SMP as the multi*lingual* planes? > > You are more than two decades late in asking this. > > It may have seemed more appropriate in an 8-bit code page world where rather > small subsets limited the number of languages accessible by one or another > part of ISO/IEC 8859. > > A new term like “multiscriptal” would not have been appropriate. File this > under “We know the term ‘ideograph’ is a misnomer."
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.' Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > Unicode@unicode.org > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
