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

[Erland Sommarskog]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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.

In practice, though, just as the "Latin alphabet" actually means the
English alphabet, the "Cyrillic alphabet" most often refers to the
Russian alphabet.
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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, [EMAIL PROTECTED]