Thrilling varia from the Library of Congress

2004-06-30 Thread Michael Everson
Found a book on the Tulu script. Found some of Doke's 1925 phonetic characters cited in a 1975 source. Found lots more Samaritan. Found volume 2 of Schmitt's Die Bamum-Schrift. Found a lovely 7-page monograph, Recommendations on Zulu Orthography, 1929 -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * *

Re: Thrilling varia from the Library of Congress

2004-06-30 Thread Patrick Andries
Michael Everson a écrit : Found a book on the Tulu script. Found some of Doke's 1925 phonetic characters cited in a 1975 source. If a few citations of author specific characters are enough are sufficient for encoding I have a few more characters to propose Note : I don't know which I really pref

Re: Thrilling varia from the Library of Congress

2004-06-30 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 02:01 PM 6/30/2004, Patrick Andries wrote: If a few citations of author specific characters are enough are sufficient for encoding I have a few more characters to propose Note : I don't know which I really prefer (encode this kind of rare characters or not). I prefer to see proposals for such

Yet more thrilling varia from the Library of Congress

2004-07-01 Thread Michael Everson
Found lots and lots about Nabataean script. Found lots and lots about the Meroitic scripts, in Arabic. Found another of Doke's 1925 phonetic characters cited in a Polish source. Found a great deal about Pollard Phonetic in its many Hmong incarnations. Found a Chuvash alphabet apparently descended f

Mandombe (was: "Re: Yet more thrilling varia from the Library of Congress")

2004-07-01 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
I guess we're all envious of Michael's adventures! Locked in LoC, wow! :-) On 2004.07.02, 01:50, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found an amazingly bad African conscript called Mandombe. Searching with Google hints that it may a weebit more than a just con-script: There was at least

Orkhon (was: "Re: Yet more thrilling varia from the Library of Congress")

2004-07-01 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2004.07.02, 01:50, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found a Chuvash alphabet apparently descended from Orkhon, if it's > not bogus. When I was in Chuvashia and shown some interest, I was told that the available corpus (rather scarce) does not "prove" that Chuvash runes were more th