Re: Pre-1923 characters?

From: Jim Allan (jallan@smrtytrek.com)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 18:56:36 EST

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    Peter Kirk wrote

    > You are probably safe with the Pan-Turkic Latin alphabet. It seems that
    > this was adopted followng the First Turkology Congress, held in Baku in
    > 1926, see
    > http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/81_folder/81_articles/81_turkology_congress.html.

    Not safe unless you *know* exactly when a character was invented.

    Characters adopted into new standardized new Latin-based alphabets or
    new standardized Latin-based transcription systems often have a previous
    history.

    Jim Allan



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