From: Karl Pentzlin (karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de)
Date: Sun Nov 23 2008 - 16:48:19 CST
Am Sonntag, 23. November 2008 um 22:01 schrieb philip chastney:
pc> A couple of quick questions. First, about how long would the list of
pc> combinations be?
pc> if we take 32-ish Latin characters, 24 Greek and 36-ish Cyrillic
pc> characters, and double that for upper and lower case, we have 144 potential base characters
pc> Combining Diacritical Marks (0300~036F) lists 112 characters
pc> ...
pc> we can refine that figure
pc> Latin characters use about 40 marks, Greek perhaps half-a-dozen
pc> (if we count the cases where 2 marks are used) and Cyrillic about 12
pc> ( 32 × 40 ) + ( 24 × 6 ) + ( 32 × 12 ) = 1808 potential
pc> combinations per case, which gives us a tighter limit of 3,600 combinations
If you take into account that:
- a lot of people (e.g. linguists and writers of North American indigenous
languages) use to attach 3 diacritical marks onto a base letter,
- there are "double diacritics" which attach to arbitrary pairs of base letters,
- there possibly will be "triple diacritics" which attach to arbitrary
triplets of base letters,
this number gets somewhat higher.
- Karl Pentzlin
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