Re: Korean compression (was: Re: Ternary search trees for Unicode dictionaries)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 08:27:50 EST

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    At 08:23 -0500 2003-11-25, John Cowan wrote:
    >Michael Everson scripsit:
    >
    >> Ridiculous. This happened centuries ago, and it is not "why" Ethiopic
    >> was encoded as a syllabary. It was encoded as a syllabary because it
    >> is a syllabary.
    >
    >Structurally it's an abugida, like Indic and UCAS.

    I disagree. And I don't think Canadian Syllabics are an abugida. But
    let's leave this one alone, shall we? 

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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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