Mayan, Rongo-Rongo (was Re: Etruscan)

From: Edward Cherlin (cherlin@cauce.org)
Date: Tue Nov 04 1997 - 02:50:51 EST


At 1:18 PM -0700 11/3/97, Michael Everson wrote:
>Ar 10:53 -0800 1997-11-03, scrmobh John H. Jenkins:
>>
>>Of course, I don't hear anybody asserting that Unicode *ought* to support
>>boustrophedon in plain text, anyway.
>
>You might for Rongo-rongo.
>
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Would anyone assert that the original order for Mayan (L-R pairs, T-B
columns, L-R overall text) should be supported directly--e.g.

1 2 7 8
3 4 9 10
5 6 11 12

given that it is also quoted L-R in scholarly texts?

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