An alphabet should be a complete container of all possible writing forms ever existed in the life of a language. - This might need some explanation.<br><br>A Font Type subset should be a container of all possible writing forms existing at a certain time period with each form uniquely corresponding to a phoneme and vice versa with out ambiguity.<br>
<br>eg:<br>Font set : (of Malayalam)<br>Font subset: (Malayalam Old Lipi)<br>Font subset : (Malayalam (attempted)(intermediate) new Lipi)<br>Font subset: (Malayalam Archival Lipi) (For very old documents)<br>Type set: (Malayalam Script)<br>
Type set: (Malayalam calligraphy) etc. etc.<br><br>As of now, we have only one Font Set for Malayalam in Unicode. And all possible subsets are accommodated within the same code set.<br><br>In any case, this whole topic will need a much thorough discussion/ debate and settlement.<br>
<br>-viswam<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/14 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:viswaprabha@gmail.com">viswaprabha@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
An alphabet should be a complete container of all possible writing forms ever existed in the life of a language.</blockquote></div><br>