Here comes the Yiddish

Michael Everson everson@evertype.com
Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:30:36 +0000


At 11:07 +0000 2002-12-04, Jon Hanna wrote:

>The problem isn't that 'one could conceivably express "Portuguese written in
>the Arabic script"'. The problem is that currently, without registration,
>one cannot. Yiddish in Hebrew, Yiddish in Roman, Portuguese in Arabic and
>Old Irish in Ogham (one I'd personally like to see) should become encodable
>in one fell swoop.

This is what <script="Ogam"> tags are for. This is what ISO 15924 is 
for. I don't understand why this isn't clear.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com