... Quite probably :) The head of our computer services group used to write notes on his whiteboard in English runes. Ogham is reportedly alive and well in...
... The Orkhon runes were quite thoroughly dead when they were discovered (when?) and deciphered by Vilhelm Thomsen around the turn of the 20th century. Uyghur...
I've actually tried to contact the webmaster at Omniglot to try and make some corrections to summaries like the one you've just quoted... While mostly ignored,...
Hi, Recently, I have bought some tin coins which was found in south east asia, malaysia, malacca. Those tin coin have some ancient script on it which I don't...
... Wish I could help; it's surely not one for people like me to guess at! Unfortunately, part of the image on both sides is no longer legible, making...
If you like Unicode-like charts, but with all 256 codepoints on one sheet, and decimal codepoint values in every block, I found an online doc. that has many...
I have finally found that Kuralsoft 3.1, and possibly some other SW does indeed have typewriter input (visual order input) available in Unicode and it works...
Nicholas do you have a URL? Thx B. J. ... http://us.click.yahoo.com/TzSHvD/SOnJAA/79vVAA/GP4qlB/TM ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!...
{utf-8} Hewlett-Packard, in its Master Symbol List (MSL), has a very simple scheme for naming all these odd symbols (U+2500 and following). For example, â•“ is...
No, I'm no expert on this one. It's like an underline, but written above the characters on a line -- an overscore. It's not a macron (¯), because it is...
Nicholas Bodley wrote:
> {utf-8}
> Hewlett-Packard, in its Master Symbol List (MSL), has a very > simple scheme for naming all these odd symbols (U+2500 and
>...
So why has this list split into two if the topics are not sufficiently distinct that we have to cross post links to discussions form one on the other? Best, ...
I want to ask about something that I truly hope can not be controversial - I mentioned last fall that I sometimes thought of phonemes in 3 groups - consonants,...
... Vowels vs Consonants is too simple a classification. From what I can recall from my Phonology class, phonemes lie along a spectrum of sonority, and...
... Because Nicholas doesn't understand that people who want to talk about computers should go to the other place? Though "vellum" seems an odd name for a...
... My concept was that the manufacture of paper would also come under its remit, but the name 'papyrus' was already taken. I'm not sure where an intelligent...
... thought ... Prenasalisation is also pretty common - very comparable to 'presigmatisation'. ... History plays a very large role here. For example,...
So the moderator here has ordained that all talk of computers on this list is verboten? If so, I missed that message, unless Peter T. Daniels and the moderator...
... No. However, the discussions of the mechanism of a golf-ball typewriter seemed to be off-topic, and certainly annoyed one of the Unicode contributors on...
Which Unicode contributor was that? I don't think it was Tex. The only annoyed person I recall was Peter T. D. , and he has been pretty up front that he is not...
... Vellum is (etymologically) calfskin, usually denoting merely a fine grade of parchment. Paper would go together with papyrus (and palm leaves) as a vegetal...
... "Barry" seems to have taken quite a dislike to me. I suggest that qalam be used for talking about writing systems, and some other venue, perhaps vellum, be...
Richard - Oh yeah - I remember that now... I have to say that I wonder why some people on this list are so sensitive to what is discussed in threads they don't...
Peter - I don't dislike you but I can easily imagine that you meet lots of people in your life who do. For example, once you insisted here that people use your...
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