Re: Theban alphabet?

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 02:36:14 EST


David Starner <starner@okstate.edu> wrote:

> There is a full proposal for the Theban alphabet at:
> <http://tuxedo.org/~esr/unicode/theban/>. Has anyone here ever seen
it?
> It doesn't show on the Unicode website, even in the "Yeah, right"
> listing of scripts.

Gods help me if I should ever have to distinguish between THEBAN LETTERS
O and R in free text. Talk about spoof buddies. Yikes.

Note also that Eric refers to the "extra" letter as being "inserted out
of order between THEBAN LETTER I and THEBAN LETTER J," even though there
is no THEBAN LETTER J. Not a cipher?

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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