On 10/15/10 6:59 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > AFAIK languages can use one or multiple writing systems that fall into > these categories > > 1) simple,alphabet - every letter represents a single consonant or > vowel with a few simple exceptions (like small groups of letters > having special meaning) - Greek, German, Latin, Russian, .. > > 2) syllabic,syllabary - a letter represents a syllable, possibly with > optional vowels, combining marks for vowels, etc. Japanese Kana, > Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Indic scripts, ...
From a linguistic/typographic perspective, syllabic writing systems are completely different from semitic writing systems. I have no clue how Arabic and Hebrew are handled in Unicode, but they should not be conflated anywhere outside of Unicode that's for sure. -- Live well, ~wren _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
