Re: How Many Scripts?

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 09:58:59 EST


Murray Sargent wrote:

> Many languages use Braille. As such it's more of an encoding than a script.

Many languages use Latin, or Cyrillic, or Arabic, sometimes in
wildly conflicting ways (especially Latin, where there is hardly
a letter that doesn't have more than one use worldwide).

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)



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