Re: How Many Scripts?

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 09:58:59 EST

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Murray Sargent wrote:

> Many languages use Braille. As such it's more of an encoding than a script.

Many languages use Latin, or Cyrillic, or Arabic, sometimes in
wildly conflicting ways (especially Latin, where there is hardly
a letter that doesn't have more than one use worldwide).

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