Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Language/Written

Request for new writing-system category: runes (ISO code runr)

Although I've previously discussed adding a userbox for runic literacy (in the Babelbox section), it seems more logical to list that skill under writing systems instead of languages. I see only a few problems with adding "runr-n" userboxes:

1. No native level would apply, because almost nobody consistently uses runes (an ancient script) to write their native language.
2. Some distinction between variants of the runic alphabet (Primitive Germanic vs. Saxon vs. Norse) might be useful. The ISO system, however, treats all runic scripts as a single block of Unicode: what kind of modifier should be added to "runr-n" to specify a variant alphabet?

--Ingeborg S. Nordén 00:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)