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- From: glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams)
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- Subject: Wanted: Dead or Alive!
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- Date: 5 Sep 92 00:44:49 GMT
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- I am posting the following request from Rick McGowan, the Chair of the
- Unicode New Scripts Subcommittee, who is seeking information on a
- variety of scripts for potential inclusion in a future version of
- Unicode.
-
- Glenn Adams
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- From: Rick_McGowan@next.com (Rick McGowan)
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 17:25:19 -0700
- To: unicode@sun.com
- Subject: Wanted! (Advertisement)
-
- WANTED. Dead or Alive. Information concerning any of the following
- scripts. Prefer information in the form of repertoire listings,
- explanatory material, or bibliographic references to significant sources
- of information easily obtainable by mere mortals within the boundaries of
- the continental US. Please contact me if you have sighted any of these.
- Allow 10-14 working days for reply. Void where prohibited. Post in plain
- sight.
-
- Rick_McGowan@NeXT.COM
-
- Ahom
- Albanian (Buthakukye)
- Assyrian cuneiform
- Avesta (Pazand)
- Aymara script
- Aztec pictograms
- Babylonian cuneiform
- Bamum (Cameroon)
- Buhid
- Chakma
- Cham
- Chieng Mai
- Chola
- Ge'ez script (not modern Ethiopic)
- Hittite hieroglyphics (not the syllabic set)
- Iberian
- Indus Valley script
- Kaithi (original writing for Bihari)
- Kauder script (Micmac Indians)
- Khitan characters
- Khotanese
- Kok Turki runes (Orkhon script)
- Kuoyu
- Lahnda (original writing for Punjabi)
- Lolo script
- Maghreb
- Manchu (Mongolian form)
- Mandaean
- Mangyan
- Manichaean
- Mayan hieroglyphics
- Modi
- Moso (Nasi) ideograms
- Moso phonetic script
- Nuchen characters
- Osmanya script (new script for Somalian)
- Pahlavik (Cursive Pahlavi)
- Parthian
- Paucartambo script
- Phaistos disk script
- Pollard phonetic script
- Proto-Byblic
- Proto-Elamic
- Pyu
- Rejang (on Sumatra)
- Rongo-rongo (Easter Island script)
- Samaritan
- Satavahana
- Sogdian (Uzbekistan)
- Sumerian pictograms
- Tai Lu script
- Tai Nua script
- Tankri
- Vai (Liberia)
- Woleai (Caroline)
- Xixia
-