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Qalam, a mailing list about the world's writing systems.

Alphabets, ideographs and hieroglyphs; calligraphy, typography and fonts; i18n, character sets and input methods; Morse, Braille and sign language; literacy, history of writing and invented scripts. These are just a few examples of on-topic subjects.

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Hurrian Cuneiform Signs
I am having difficulty interpreting some Hurrian 'transliterations'. The problem is that some readings are outside the Akkadian range, and the texts are too
Posted - Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:22 am
 Richard Wordingham
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Re: Fwd: Typeset and typewritten Arabic before computer typesetting
A Selectric ball carried 92 glyphs, and they were very cleverly designed. Arabic instructional materials from the 1970s were frequently typed that way (see the
Posted - Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:27 pm
 Peter T. Daniels
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Fwd: Typeset and typewritten Arabic before computer typesetting
Dear Qalamites, While not strictly on-topic, this message (a reply to a message I'd sent) seemed to be of uncommon interest. Mr. Hosny is one of the people who
Posted - Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:18 pm
 Nicholas Bodley
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Re: samyak
... Want something that used to be on the internet? The Wayback machine is your friend...
Posted - Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:58 pm
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Re: samyak
Someone emailed me a link to an archived version of the gnowledge page, whose old link for both versions of Samyak worked (the Unicode Gallery is not aware of
Posted - Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:37 pm
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