[Buddha-l] Brahmi Script

[Christopher Fynn]

On 15/10/2010, Bernard Simon <bernie.simon at gmail.com> wrote:
> The new version of the Unicode standard includes the Brahmi script.

> http://advogato.org/person/roozbeh/diary/163.html

> Of course, someone will have to also make the computer font.

According to theLalitavistara this is the script the Buddha is said to
have mastered in his youth.  The early form of the script was
definitely in use by the third century BCE - maybe earlier.

- C