Re: orthographies

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2005 - 15:59:31 CST

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    At 10:56 AM 2/21/2005, Hans Aberg wrote:
    >At 17:40 -0800 2005/02/19, Asmus Freytag wrote:
    > >Luckily, for Unicode, character encoding is deliberately at the script
    > >level, not the orthography level.
    >
    >One could probably introduce orthography, if one does not expect it to be
    >used, except at need and want. It might be better to attempt to make a
    >wholly new, "scholarly", character set, avoiding the many technological
    >concerns that the current Unicode set must take into account.

    Such a set would then be discussed on its own mailing list, which would
    rid us of a continuation of this discussion. You have my blessing,
    go forth an multiply your orthogaphies.

    A./



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