RE: in the NEW YORK TIMES today, report of a USA patent for a met hod to make the Arabic language easier to read/write/typeset

From: Mike Ayers (mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com)
Date: Mon Mar 15 2004 - 14:25:52 EST

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> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
> Behalf Of Michael Everson
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 9:40 AM

> In the NEW YORK TIMES today
> comes a report of a USA patent for a new version of written Arabic
> letters, designed to make them easier to read/write/typeset without
> making them too different from traditional Arabic script:

And this comes hot on the heels of the ITA discussion. Yes, folks,
now aspiring learners can have their budding literacy stunted in not just
one, but two of the world's major languages! <sniff> Aaaaah, progress.

/|/|ike

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