From: jcowan@reutershealth.com
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 16:45:47 CDT
E. Keown scripsit:
> So could you do this with all Semitic/Afroasiatic languages which have
> something like alef and beth? Is there a numeric limit?
No, there's no numerical limit. You could do it for whichever 22CWSAs
Unicode ends up encoding. Another consequence is that searching as well
as sorting would work: you could search at the first level for yod-he-vav-he,
and find either P-H or Square encodings, or you could search for specifically
P-H codes or particularly Square codes by using a finer degree of separation.
The more I think about this, the more I like it.
> Or if the Egyptian biconsonantal etc. stuff is harder to process,
> is that a limitation?
Collating Egyptian is a whole different ball of wax about which I know nothing.
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