On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:47:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/07/08 04:44, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 06/02/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > However, I vehemently disagree that email should be ascii. This is > >> > >> But that's how the US maintains it's hegemony over the Internet... > >> > >> Well, that and the fact that (compared to "calligraphic", > >> pictographic & hieroglyphic languages) Greco-Latin alphabets are > >> small, simple, regularized, easy to print, and a perfect basis for > >> extensible vocabulary. > > > > Greek is not in ASCII, > > Never said it was. > > > and Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and all the > > Russian derives from Greek. Note that I specified Greco-Latin.
Russian is written in a script that was originally derived from Greek. Latin was originally derevied from Greek. But things have changed over time. For instance, even modern Greek is not the same as ancient Greek. The Greek letters were derived from ancient Israely / Phenician letters. Though the "modern" (anything in the last 2000 or so) uses a somewhat diffrent script (but still from the same origin). Arabic is also derived from there. The fact that one script is based on another does not mean you can write them using the same characters. You may be familiar with the Hebrew Aleph (as in Aleph 0, א). The ancient Hebrew form of it was something a bit more similar to the Greek Alpha, though rotated. And then you have the Latin 'A'. Four different letters. Written differently. From the same origin. And the Arabic Alif is even completely different. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
