"H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:55:54PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > [...] >> Crazy stuff! Some of them look rather similar to Arabic or Korean's >> Hangul (sp?), at least to my untrained eye. And then others are just >> *really* interesting-looking, like: >> >> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/12480.htm >> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ayeri.htm >> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oxidilogi.htm >> >> You're right though, if I were in charge of Unicode and tasked with >> handling some of those, I think I'd just say "Screw it. Unicode is now >> depricated. Use ASCII instead. Doesn't have the characters for your >> langauge? Tough! Fix your language!" :) > > You think that's crazy, huh? Check this out: > > http://www.omniglot.com/writing/sumerian.htm > > Now take a deep breath... > > ... this writing was *actually used* in ancient times. Yeah. >
Jesus, I could *easily* mistake that for hardware schematics. That's wild.
