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<span style=" color: red">GrimPixel:</span> Yeah, new table for scripts. But there is a problem - Japanese uses both Kana and Chinese, Korean uses Hangul and sometimes Chinese. Also, both Traditional and Simplified Chinese are belonging to Chinese script. So it's not strictly according to script systems.
<span style=" color: red">GrimPixel:</span> Yeah, new table for scripts. But there is a problem - Japanese uses both Kana and Chinese, Korean uses Hangul and sometimes Chinese. Also, both Traditional and Simplified Chinese are belonging to Chinese script. So it's not strictly according to script systems.


<span style=" color: red">Vincent:</span> Facebook has this list: <span style=" color: red">https://www.facebook.com/translations</span> What do you suggest we can do, use a different list for translations or simplify and use only one list for everything? <span style=" color: red">GrimPixel:</span> A professtional site:
<span style=" color: red">Vincent:</span> Facebook has this list: <span style=" color: red">https://www.facebook.com/translations</span> What do you suggest we can do, use a different list for translations or simplify and use only one list for everything?  
 
<span style=" color: red">GrimPixel:</span> A professtional site:
http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php It will require ISO 15924: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924 But it's still not good enough, because of being exceedingly precise, not practical. Some should be hidden, such as Hiragana, Katakana, Japanese Syllables, because there is a "Japanese" which includes them all.
http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php It will require ISO 15924: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924 But it's still not good enough, because of being exceedingly precise, not practical. Some should be hidden, such as Hiragana, Katakana, Japanese Syllables, because there is a "Japanese" which includes them all.


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<span style=" color: red">GrimPixel:</span> I think it will finally be according to scripts, though there are different customs in different areas within a script.
<span style=" color: red">GrimPixel:</span> I think it will finally be according to scripts, though there are different customs in different areas within a script.
<span style=" color: red">Vincent:</span> You mean the list here? <span style=" color: red">http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_overview&sort_scripts_current=script_name</span> but it makes no sense : for example Cyrillic can be Bulgarian or Russian. There is no other way than making up a specific and simple list


<span style=" color: red">GrimPixel:</span> I think it makes - Bulgarian can be Cyrillic, Russian can also be Cyrillic. In each entry, there is Writing systems that use this script, which tells which languages use the script.
<span style=" color: red">GrimPixel:</span> I think it makes - Bulgarian can be Cyrillic, Russian can also be Cyrillic. In each entry, there is Writing systems that use this script, which tells which languages use the script.

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