-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/08 11:40, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 07/02/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maybe "Greco-Latin" was the wrong way to write what I meant. A >> longer, but hopefully clearer, method would be "alphabets of Greek >> and Latin descent". > > Not to continue this perpetually, but I think that you mean Latin > decent. Although, technically speaking, Latin is in fact of Greek > decent. However no Greek letters are in ASCII (the original point of > the subthread). Even Greek glyphs that look like Latin glyphs are > different codepoints.
No, I meant Greek & Latin, since I wanted to include Cyrillic in the dicussion. And yes, I understand that *ASCII* is only limited to western alphabets. Specifically, American English. [snip] > >> What about the "dots". Is that just a figment of misunderstanding? > > The dots in Hebrew are optional. They indicate pronunciation, and are > not used in everyday reading and writing. In fact, the only time they > are seen is in religious texts and texts intended for those learning > Hebrew. Sometimes, when writing a foreign word that must be pronounced > correctly, they are used, but not often. > > In Arabic, the dots do change letters, so they are not optional > strictly speaking. The dots are always present on signs and in print. > However, in writing, I think that they are often eliminated. Although > I don't really have much experience with handwritten Arabic, so I'm > very possibly wrong in that regard. Interesting. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHq33BS9HxQb37XmcRAj//AKCACVAacqtMtYcf0Uq2w6zv7kNxbACfdSBo ChipESit6+10h86CFz2LEKI= =NyGz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
