Unicode Mail List Archive: Re: ISO 15924: Different Arabic scripts? (original) (raw)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Nov 17 2005 - 05:44:26 CST

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At 14:28 +0100 2005-11-10, Andreas Prilop wrote:
> http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html
>has different Latin scripts: "normal", Fraktur, Gaelic.
>
>Why is there only one Arabic script? If Fraktur
>is a separate script, then there should be at
>least Naskh and Nastaliq for Arabic.

ISO 15924 isn't an academic exercise. There were
specific bibliographical reasons for giving codes
to Latf and Latg. Specifically, a book of
Schiller's poetry might be published in Fraktur
orthography or in Roman orthography, or a book by
� Criomhthain might be published in Gaelic
orthography or in Roman orthography.

Are Kufi or Nastaliq are distinguished in a similar fashion?

The text of the standard describes this usage.
Please read it and not just the code tables.

-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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