Proposed Script tag additions

[Michelle Perham]

The most recent versions of Unicode (versions 5.2 and 6.0) have added several new script tags that are missing in the second edition of ISO/IEC 14496-22 "Open Font Format" specification and the corresponding version of the OpenType 1.6. The current list of script tags can be found in the subclause 6.4.1 of 14496-22 and is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec160/scripttags.htm.

The newly defined Unicode script tags include the following:

Tag

Description

Comment

armi

Imperial Aramaic

Unicode 5.2

avst

Avestan

Unicode 5.2

bamu

Bamum

Unicode 5.2

batk

Batak

Unicode 6.0

brah

Brahmi

Unicode 6.0

egyp

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Unicode 5.2

kthi

Kaithi

Unicode 5.2

lana

Tai Tham (Lanna)

Unicode 5.2

lisu

Lisu (Fraser)

Unicode 5.2

mand

Mandaic, Mandaean

Unicode 6.0

mtei

Meitei Mayek (Meithei, Meetei)

Unicode 5.2

orkh

Old Turkic, Orkhon Runic

Unicode 5.2

phli

Inscriptional Pahlavi

Unicode 5.2

prti

Inscriptional Parthian

Unicode 5.2

samr

Samaritan

Unicode 5.2

sarb

Old South Arabian

Unicode 5.2

tavt

Tai Viet

Unicode 5.2


We propose to start a new amendment and include the new script tags in the text of the ISO OFF standard and in the OpenType 1.6.

An illustration of the proposed changes can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec160/scripttagsProposed.htm

Michelle


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