Two weeks since my initial inquiry, I was pleased to receive an email from Oxford announcing the forthcoming Fall Sale, including "The World's Writing Systems"...
... Yahoo! ... Or, if you were considering buying it at amazon, save $150.50. I'll announce this at sci.lang; does it say there's a starting date for the sale?...
... Submit it to the Vatican: maybe they'd wish to add this a 6th proof to the next edition of Mr. Aquinas' Summa Theologica. Ciao. Marco...
Marco Cimarosti
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Sep 5, 2003 8:06 am
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Can anyone help me find a keyboard layout for Latin-script Tatar? Please reply off-line. (Apologies for the cross-posting.) -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California ...
... Hmmm. I signed up on the Oxford sale list weeks ago, but didn't get any announcement (or the spam catcher ate it). There may be a God, but is there a...
... didn't get any announcement (or the spam catcher ate it). There may be a God, but is there ... They send you a confirmation email that you have to ...
... I *believe* I remember getting the confirmation email, but it's been some time now. ... Yes, a big thanks to Peter Daniels! It should be on it's way here...
Sorry if this is a repeat. I haven't seen this on the list and I found a problem between Yahoo and my ISP, that I hope is fixed now. tex Hi, just fyi, my page...
Tex Texin wrote:
> just fyi, my page on scripts was finally posted:
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-scripts.html
> > thanks to all of you that...
Marco Cimarosti
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Sep 14, 2003 2:24 pm
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... No, it was finally changed some months ago. But Kossovo is still in Serbia, and Albanian is also roman-alphabet. -- Peter T. Daniels...
Marco, thanks for the comments. The intent of the table is to identify the languages that are used for localization, not necessarily to be a comprehensive list...
... Strictly speaking, Urdu script is an adaptation of Perso-Arabic script. It is not the same as Arabic script pure and simple. Macintosh Arabic fonts...
... The Ethnologue's estimates for first-language speakers: Mandarin: 875 million English: 341 million Bengali: 207 million Hindi: 366 million Urdu: 104...
Thanks John. You reminded me why we dropped the "except Israel" from the "Middle East" entry for Arabic. Since Arabic is an official (even if qualified)...
... Unluckily, no two sources give the same numbers and, well, apologizes to SIL people here but The Ethnologue's estimates do not have great fame of ...
Marco Cimarosti
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Sep 15, 2003 8:04 am
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... In Unicode terms it is the same script. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com...
... That could be Akira Nakanishi's "Writing Systems of the World", a book which describes writing systems used in today's (well, late 70's) daily newspapers. ...
Marco Cimarosti
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Sep 15, 2003 8:18 am
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Thanks Marco. Yes, I used Nakanishi as a reference, so that is likely where I got it. tex ... -- ... Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898...
... Now that is an interesting comment, and I probably should know this, and a quick look didn't turn up the answer: What is the criteria by which Unicode ...
... Common sense? ... What? Just because Urdu has a few letters that Arabic does not, and just because it prefers a different type style, does not make it a ...
Tex Texin wrote:
> Michael Everson wrote with respect to Urdu:
> > In Unicode terms it is the same script.
> > Now that is an interesting comment, and I...
Marco Cimarosti
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Sep 15, 2003 9:30 am
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... All (or at least nearly all) of the characters needed to represent Urdu are in the Arabic script block. Essentially Persian uses the Arabic script with a...
... Doesn't look like common sense to me to say that Arabic is a subset of Urdu. Is Latin a subset of English? ... To write the word corvus, do you write Cee...
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> Michael Everson wrote:
> > > > At 04:43 -0400 2003-09-15, Tex Texin wrote:
> > > > >Now that is an interesting comment, and I...
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