New scripts

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Tue Nov 27 13:05:00 CET 2007


At 12:47 +0100 2007-11-27, Frank Ellermann wrote:
>Michael Everson wrote:
>
>  >> If that's possible, what was the problem with IPA and UPA ?
>
>  > Those were orthographies of Latin.
>
>Turning characters right to left or upside down isn't what I 
>consider as an orthography.

It is what I consider an orthography, though. And the IPA isn't 
"just" a collection of turned and mirrored letters.

>Inspired by Latin and including it as subset, was my impression when 
>looking at the charts.

There are many, many, many Latin letters in the UCS. Some of them are 
used in the IPA.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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