Re: Re: [psg.com #951] extensibility via codes not maintained by ISO

JFC (Jefsey) Morfin scripsit:

> Frank documented what you can do with this mental twist. Scripts are named 
> in ISO 15924 ane are collections of characters documented in ISO 10646 with 
> their digital value. 

Many ISO 15924 scripts are not presently encoded, and ISO 15924
in no way depends on ISO 10646.

> UTF-8 global script.

UTF-8 is not a script.

> Anyway, non of them gives me a correct French keyboard 

Keyboards are neither scripts nor encodings.

> BTW , I always wander (and nobody answered) what is going to be the use for 
> your browser to know the name of the Script? Will it tell you "Hi! John, 
> you entered Mongolian script", or will it call a collection of digital 
> records to do someting with them? Or is it just for statistics?

A browser could look for a Mongolian font, or could replace the document
with a note that it is in a script you don't understand, or transliterate
it into a script you do understand.  But of course language tags are not
confined to browsers: they can also be used, for example, to catalogue
resources.

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