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Arabic and Hebrew script have been mentioned, but there are many more scripts that require bidi support. But it is also not just of a question of bidirectional text, all...

@jerch, assuming a solution to the extended grapheme clusters is found, it will then be necessary to rethink the grid system. East Asian Width property and two cell sizes may...

syc? as in Classical Syriac? Glyphs required for Classical Syriac would requrire the ʾEsṭrangēlā version of the glyphs. If support is added for modern Syriac languages such as Assyrian (aii)...

This is where things get confusing. The code arc., used in that wikipedia refers to a dead language Classical Aramaic. Which never used the Syriac script. So from language code...

Yes, but which of the various neo-aramaic languages is it? And what will happen if other neo-Aramaic languages establish wikis? Especially since the same autonym may be used for different...

Although implied in @russellgalvin's description is that the concept is non-textual in nature and tangential to any text and text encoding.

> Re James Craig: > > In analogy, if you have the choice of encoding English as an alphabet or as a dictionary, which would you choose? That is the...

@russellgalvin actually alphabets do get up dated. But that is neither here nor there. From what has been discussed so far, and from your comments, it is not textual data,...

Although as you get to more exotic scripts you'll run into additional problems. I'd like to see support for Assyrian and Chaldean language names, but that would involve an additional...

While we are discussing Myanmar support could the following labels all be supported? Burmese my မြန်မာဘာသာ \u1019\u103C\u1014\u103A\u1019\u102C\u1018\u102C\u101E\u102C S'gaw Karen ksw ကညီစှီၤကျိာ် \u1000\u100A\u102E\u1005\u103E\u102E\u1064\u1000\u103B\u102D\u102C\u103A Western Pwo Karen pwo ဖျိၩ့ဆၧချဲၩ့ \u1016\u103B\u102D\u1069\u1037\u1006\u1067\u1001\u103B\u1032\u1069\u1037