On Apr 19, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Whistler, Ken wrote: > > As regards any possible case for encoding localizable sentences *as > characters*, > in my opinion, the train long ago left the station for that one.
Indeed, people have been devising systems for representing words and sentences via ordinary numbers that worked just fine for at least 170 years. http://books.google.com/books?id=4FIpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false
