[Ltru] Re: Identifying script (or global) variants

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:38:14PM +0700,
 Martin Hosken <martin_hosken@sil.org> wrote 
 a message of 28 lines which said:

> it would be really nice if there was some non-semantic mechanism by
> which a variant that is being used to modify a script (and therefore
> has no constraining language in its specification) may be identified
> over a language specific variant (which may be to do with script,
> but is langauge specific).

I have no idea right now but can you provide more specific examples,
in order to gain a better understanding of the problem?

> There are numerous ways this could be done, for example by
> restricting them to start with a specific letter or letters, or
> somesuch.

In the future 4646bis registry, there are only twelve variants, eight
seem to be related to the spoken language and two (the ones with
digits) related to the orthography (and so language-specific).

Only the remaining two, the famous fonipa and fonupa seem
language-independant.

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