L2/18-181

[Richard Wordingham via Unicode]

On Wed, 16 May 2018 13:46:22 -0700
Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18181-n4947-assamese.pdf
> 
> This is a fascinating proposal to disunify the Assamese script from
> Bengali on the following bases:

According to the proposal, the encoding for the Assamese writing system
*must* be in the BMP.  As it needs over a 100 characters, the only way
to satisfy the need to be in the BMP is for it to share Bengali
characters.  Hey, that solution is already implemented!

Richard.