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I don't know that I've ever heard a good reason why we need to have historical/ancient scripts, symbol sets, etc. in something like Unicode.
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
I don't know that I've ever heard a good reason why we need to have historical/ancient scripts, symbol sets, etc. in something like Unicode.
- Tomte 7y agoScholarly publications on the web.
- gritzko 7y agoThe only extinct language used in scholarly publication is Latin, AFAIK.
- SahAssar 7y agoAh, so nobody is doing any research on older non-european cultures then? No archeological or linguistic or other kinds of research? Nothing on african, asian, american cultures?
- gritzko 7y agoI mean, a corpus of researchers writing articles in an extinct language, reading them like that, googling in the language? Vatican is the only example I can think of.
- Tomte 7y agoNo. They are writing about those languages and need to cite the original. Show phrases in that language and then comment on them in English.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoDon't buy it. That's a huge amount of complication to add for such a niche use case that could just as easily use a custom font or straight-up images. Besides, Klingon apparently doesn't get a mere 40 slots for its characters and is probably used more in text communication than some of these ancient languages.