At 13:25 -0800 2002-12-17, Carl W. Brown wrote:
Since you key in syllables as consonant+vowel combinations
Inputting is unrelated to the encoding, and it is conceivable that a
non-alphabetic input method could exist for Ethiopic.
you can keep the encoding under 256 characters
There is nothing magic about this number.
like most other languages with syllabic glyphs
What? Canadian Syllabics takes 40 columns and Yi takes 73.
and keep the processing consistent with other languages.
I don't know what you are talking about. What processing?
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