Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in

[Peter_Constable]

On 02/20/2001 11:48:07 PM DougEwell2 wrote:

>In a message dated 2001-02-20 09:53:50 Pacific Standard Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>>  An alphabet is a type of writing system, something that is implemented
for
>>  a particular language. Certainly Latin is the name of a language while
>>  Roman is not, and so "Latin alphabet" is correct while "Roman alphabet"
>>  would not be.
>
>Counterexample:  The "Cyrillic" script is used to write Russian,
Bulgarian,
>Serbian, Ukrainian, etc.  This is an especially useful term precisely
because
>there is no "Cyrillic" language, and so the term does not favor any one
>language over others.

These are not counterexamples to what I wrote, that I can see. I was not
suggesting that script names must be adjectives than can in any way be
attributed to a language. I don't see your point at all.


- Peter


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