From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Sat May 14 2005 - 14:20:31 CDT
Curtis Clark wrote:
> Two scripts with which I have some knowledge of the mystical aspects are
> Runic and Ogham. In both cases, mystical aspects were not explicitly
> included, meaning that they were neither deprecated nor enshrined, but
> rather ignored, except to the extent that they paralleled need for
> encoding historical use. In the case of Runic, there are glyph variants
> that can supposedly change the mystical meaning of the text (although
> this may be a modern invention); they were not encoded. In the case of
> Ogham, the blank ogham was encoded (U+00A0), but not with that meaning. :-)
So mysticism is a mark-up issue, not an encoding issue. That sounds fine to me.
John Hudson
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