Re: Futhorc

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Aug 18 1999 - 13:26:24 EDT


Ar 09:49 -0700 1999-08-18, scríobh Robert Brady:
>The Futhorc (Runic) script is allocated space in Unicode 3 beta. There are
>_81_ characters assigned to it.
>
>A lot of these are the ones commonly used in Northern Europe for writing
>Norse, Old English, etc... However, I cannot find where the other 50 or so
>characters come from. Does anyone know?

The manuscript tradition.

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