From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 17:37:37 EST
At 13:25 -0800 2002-12-17, Carl W. Brown wrote:
>Since you key in syllables as consonant+vowel combinations
Inputting is unrelated to the encoding, and it is conceivable that a
non-alphabetic input method could exist for Ethiopic.
>you can keep the encoding under 256 characters
There is nothing magic about this number.
>like most other languages with syllabic glyphs
What? Canadian Syllabics takes 40 columns and Yi takes 73.
>and keep the processing consistent with other languages.
I don't know what you are talking about. What processing?
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