RE: Codes for codes for codes for... (RE: Chromatic font research )

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 14:23:43 EDT


Doug Ewell wrote:
> I think the reason the Braille block is legitimate, and doesn't fall
> into the codes-for-codes trap you described, is that it is a flexible
> cipher rather than a fixed one. The same Braille symbol can stand for
> different letters depending on which script, or even which alphabet
> within the same script, it is used to represent. And then
> there's Grade
> 2 Braille, which completely breaks the "simple cipher" model.

I stand corrected.

_ Marco



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