On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Vinayak Hegde <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> हिंदी, picola di Italiano & muy pocito Español, read Brahmi and some > Tamil > >> > > > > > > Welcome. Where did you learn Brahmi (or why did you choose it). Asking > > since it is a pretty unusual choice. > > Self-taught, there are a lot of glyph tables online, and all Indian > scripts being Brahmi-derived, very easy to pick up the concepts. Being > into history, have always wanted to read inscriptions. Learning Brahmi > allowed me to read Asokan edicts, which was pretty cool (even though > the underlying Pali was hard, picking out place and people names was > cool). > Hi Kingsley, I've seen your name around. Don't believe we've actually met. Since you are interested in languages/scripts, you'll be interested in one of the projects I'm working on - developing a harmonious font family to cover all of the world's (encoded) languages. More details (including some fonts to download) at noto.googlecode.com It has been a fun experience learning about Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform and Brahmi as we build fonts for those scripts. Thaths PS: For the cypherpunks of the list, we are also building a font for Linear B. -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
