From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Sat Jun 23 2007 - 06:14:56 CDT
On 23 Jun 2007, at 07:00, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> If there is an existing set of symbols in use by some community,
> that would be worthy of investigation for encoding. George makes
> that point that the (modern) community does not use such symbols to
> discuss the concepts in the old texts. Where symbols exist in the
> old texts themselves, they are worthy of investigation for encoding
> in their own right - and I suspect for the scripts in question,
> that is being done / has been done as part of the task of encoding
> these ancient scripts.
I found the following link:
http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/science+society/contents.html
Lectures 3-5 deal with some ancient counting systems. One would
surmise it already has been added to Unicode, but some experts can
perhaps verify. :-)
Hans Aberg
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