From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Jun 23 2007 - 14:08:51 CDT
On 6/23/2007 4:14 AM, Hans Aberg wrote:
> 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. :-)
>
>
I'm sure that the experts, e.g. for Sumerian, were/are really keen on
having all number representations covered, given that such a large
number of clay tablets represent ancient accounting data. As a
non-specialist, it's unlikely that being concerned about the fine
details of the character and sign repertoire for these scripts will
materially improve the outcome.
A./
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