Mixing scripts (Re: Unicode versions (Re: Criteria for exceptional characters))

Harald Alvestrand harald at alvestrand.no
Tue Dec 19 22:34:33 CET 2006


Thanks for pointing out the relevant TR for the use of script codes, and 
the special status of "Common" and "Inherited". The algorithm grows....

--On 19. desember 2006 12:45 -0800 Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase.com> wrote:

>> Is there a list of the Unicode codepoints known to be used in each of
>> the ISO 15924 script codes?
>
> That is an ill-formed question. ISO 15924 defines script codes.
> It does not define repertoires or associate code points with
> those script codes. So you can't have sets of Unicode code points
> "in each ISO 15924 script code".
>
> The closest you are going to get to an repertoire partitioning
> of Unicode into scripts is Scripts.txt, the very file we have
> been talking about and using for the development of the
> inclusions file.

I take it this means the answer to my question is "no", since the script 
names in Scripts.txt and the ISO 15924 codes don't match up.

            Harald






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