Consider adding new columns

ohbendy / Scripts-of-SEAsia

Listing all known indigenous scripts of SEAsia

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Consider adding new columns #2

Open ohbendy opened 3 months ago

ohbendy commented 3 months ago

It might be helpful to add 'local' names for each script, where they differ from the English names.
An indication of the number of speakers would be nice.

ohbendy commented 2 months ago

Problem with adding local names is that there are so many languages, how could we limit the number of local names in a sensible way?

ohbendy commented 1 month ago

Consider a column for current/historic so people can sort that way. Also perhaps a column for LTR/RTL/VERT

ohbendy commented 1 month ago

Also possible columns:

language ISO codes
date when script appeared/was invented

Then:

Figure out locations, sometimes it's a country, sometimes it's an area of a country so the commas are a bit confusing.
Check languages that occur in different countries with different orthographies (e.g Kuy)
Check Pali and Sanskrit are not merged together for each script
Figure out best way to show scripts that are encoded using more than one Unicode block, e.g Rohingya Fonna, Tai Khamti.

ohbendy commented 1 month ago

It could be interesting to also add descriptive tags (e.g angular, round, looped, dotted, invented, ancient) to allow people to filter by the appearance of scripts.