[This is a follow-up to Jon's 2000.10.19 post on the unicode mailing list, which is also http://www.egroups.com/message/unicode/4287 . -TC] On Thu, 19 Oct...
... (( To put in context my comments below: I am still wondering about an hypothetical computer encoding for Chinese characters whose units (the "characters")...
Ok, so this is an intro as well My name is Betsy and I'm a 19 year old college student. My interest in this group springs from a variety of factors. I really...
Mr. Babcock, did you know Bill Boltz? He must have been at Berkeley just about when you were. He's now professor of Chinese at U Washington in Seattle...
... The only source for the Moon alphabet I've come across is the 11th Britannica (1911) -- though I don't remember what article it appears in. The Index will...
On the Unicode List (the Unicode Consortium's public mailing list: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/distlist.html), we have been discussing recently...
Those of you who follow the Unicode list will have seen me mention Peter A. Boodberg before. Professor Boodberg's passionate interest in the study of the...
... I think this is the case for the Nahuatl (Atztec) script, where color is a primary feature of the script (as opposed to a decorative or honorific element)....
Hello, all you FOTWers & fans of Qalam! I'm now back home in Augusta, Maine (as of Thursday 10/12/2000). Tonight (Thursday 10/19) was my 1st night back online...
Hello, fans of Qalam on E-Groups! I've temporarily set the default to "on Web only—no sent messages" only for this weekend because I've decided to end my...
Why is it not on topic? The epigraphy of a language is a (very small) part of the study of (the history of) that language. So if you have specialized in a...
... I know[*] some of the people on this list from other mailing lists [*: well, I know their postings, that is], and I think that many of us don't have an ...
Good day. Two messages by Cathy Waldman had to be deleted by the Qalam archive (http://www.egroups.com/messages/qalam) because of administrative reasons. I am...
Good day. Professor W. Bright was so kind to let us have a transcription of: "The Alphabet: A Tyrant?", the Keynote Address that he read in front of the 17th...
Hello! The characters needed for Hawai'ian (as sometimes set—also for Maori, ...) are <a, e, i, o, u> with macron, & some symbol for their so-called 'break' ...
Hello! I'm well aware that phonic/native-type letters are within UniCode, but I also know that there're (at least) *2* separate font encoding codepages for the...
... IPA phonic alphabet (which is usually lowercase unicasal) which had a 3-page (I think) .PDF file to download (which had the codepage table for IPA that ...
I would like to have some fresh info about an Etruscan document, the so called "Disco di Magliano". It is a lead disc found in Magliano, a town in Italy. Both...
Hello! A while back, I came across a codepage for the IPA phonic alphabet (which is usually lowercase unicasal) which had a 3-page (I think) .PDF file to ...
... Qalam is "a mailing list about the writing systems of the world" <http://www.egroups.com/group/qalam>. Nothing more and nothing less than that. I am the...
Can anyone identify the scripts on these two pictures? A guy sent them to me more than a year ago, asking me (!) to identify the scripts. I looked up some...
Hi, I have a couple of questions concerning Etruscan. The first one is whether or not there was a consistent method of separating words. The second question ...
Good day to everybody. ... Actually, this is only true for the Bibliography database. In the Links section, everyone *can* freely edit their own entries, using...
I hear a lot of comments in the USA from people who speak in terms of "standard"; versus "foreign" alphabets, meaning latin versus non-latin. For example, "Oh...
Good day to everybody. Please notice that I just added to Qalam a *links* section and a *bibliography*. So far, the two lists are almost empty; I just added a...
Hallo to everybody. I have a question about the Brahmi alphabet (the one used on the famous Ashoka's stone). I understand that consonant letters had an...
i'd like to call attention to the journal i edit, *written language and literacy*, published in amsterdam by benjamins, ISSN 1387-6732. it's published twice a...
Hallo. The Qalam forum is now officially open to subscriptions. Qalam is about *writing systems*, a fascinating topic about which I hope to read soon your...
